On 12 February 2012 21:22, Yury Tarasievich yury.tarasievich@gmail.com wrote:
Well, to put it less technically, you (WMF) have now on your hands one big text corpus in somewhat-natural language (meaning not-so-formalised), which is processed bottom-to-top only (for presentation). You want to introduce an I/O tool which is complex UI component (an enterprise in itself), which will work with the corpus, but will do through an additional top-down path, at that. So, inevitably, more formalisation would have to exist on top level w/r to the bottom level. I didn't see the specifications, but this in its turn presupposes some "sanitisation" of bottom level each time un-sanitised page is hit with new I/O tool. You may shudder now. :)
Yes. That's exactly why all this has taken many years. (When was a WYSIWYG editor first proposed - five or six years ago?)
- d.