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

[geni]

2009/7/6 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/7/3 Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>:
>
>> {{qif}} was being used massively, even if the majority of the community
>> didn't know about it (or care). It supported their work and allowed them
>> to do the things with templates that they needed in articles. I would
>> argue these complex templates came from the community's needs.
>
>
> Your last sentence is key here. Templates that present a (relatively)
> simple interface but have complex plumbing to do cool things are
> much-wanted and much-needed.
>
> However, the ParserFunctions language sucks because it was made up as
> it goes along and resembles nothing so much as an [[esoteric
> programming language]]. A better language will make it easier to
> program templates that do complex things with a simple interface.
>

Questionable. Since for fairly obvious reasons you can't let
wikipedians execute arbitrary code through templates there is always
going to be the problem of wikipedians useing workarounds that
generate problematical code.



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geni