[Foundation-l] Fwd: How do you fully consult the community consensus?

[Brian]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Brian<Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
> <snip>
> > I really like the ParserFunctions example. Enabled with hardly any
> > discussion and now used 500,000 times on the English Wikipedia. It had a
> > major effect on Wikipedia that made it much harder to use. And now we are
> > stuck in a programming mindset and we all assume that we all agreed to
> come
> > here. It just isn't the case. You won't be able to find where that
> agreement
> > happened.
>
> The initial parser functions were a replacement for {{qif}} and kin.
> The enwiki community had already adopted a significant degree of
> programming in template space.


The developer that abused templates so that qif could be written does not
constitute a consensus. The conversations regarding programming on Wikipedia
were extremely limited given their impact.