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From: "Greg L" <greg_l_at_wikipedia(a)comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:43 PM
To: "Voice of All" <jschulz_4587(a)msn.com>
Subject: StringFunctions
JSchulz:
Have you read the link here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numb…
…describing a scientific notation-formatting template? It could use a
character-counting parser function that StringFunction could handle if it
worked well (which it doesn’t).
I ran this by Jimbo and he thought having a character-counting parser
function for Wikipedia made sense. He said he couldn’t pressure Wikipedia’s
paid developers to make it and I should run it by Erik to see how he
would like to have it handle. Erik referred me to wikitech.
Do you have a volunteer developer in mind who might be interested in
making StringFunction bullet-proof?
Greg