[WikiEN-l] Hello

[Ray Saintonge]

The Cunctator wrote:

>For Wikipedia's purposes, it would be much better to work on computation to
>"translate" the text.
>
>One of the fundamental tenets of wikis is that they remain as close to
>natural language and markup as possible -- the wiki format should remain
>readable.
>
>This:
>
>Paris is a [[type:=city]] in
>[[located in::France]], with a population of
>[[population:=1,000,000,000]].
>
>is not.
>
I don't know about the "translation", but some of us are old enough to 
remember when articles were written in natural language.  Some 
task-oriented people become so focused on what they believe would be 
easy that they often forget that there's a real world out there where 
people don't speak markup.

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