[Foundation-l] New parser in the works - please help

[Jon Harald Søby]

Err, WikiCreole <http://wikicreole.org/>? It's already been done. But
according to Chunk and Christopher, the MediaWiki developers were not
willing to adapt MediaWiki to WikiCreole....

2007/11/17, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
>
> Wikitext-l was formed from a recent discussion on wikitech-l about the
> need to sanely reimplement the current parser, which is a Horrible
> Mess and pretty much impossible to reimplement in another language.
>
> The MediaWiki parser definition is literally "whatever the PHP parser
> does." Some of what it does is arguably very wrong, pathological,
> magical or just a Stupid Parser Trick. So the list has been formed to
> come up with a grammar that defines all the useful parts of the
> present parser, and so can be used by anyone to implement a MediaWiki
> wikitext parser. This will be useful for other software, for WYSIWYG
> editing extensions ... all manner of things.
>
> Some of what some people would think of as a "stupid parser trick" is
> in fact important - e.g. L'''uomo'' which renders as L<i>uomo</i>
> (necessary for French and Italian).
>
> So: we need to know what MediaWiki quirks are supporting important
> constructs in languages other than English (which is the language the
> list is in, and is the native language of most of the participants),
> and particularly in non-European languages.
>
> This list is unlikely to implement new features, e.g. (an example
> brought up by GerardM) the double-apostrophe in Neapolitan. But we
> really need to know about present important features that wouldn't be
> obvious to an English-speaker going through the present parser code.
>
>
> - d.
>
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