[Wikimedia-l] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass (was: Visual Editor)

[Marc A. Pelletier]

On 07/29/2013 07:00 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> Are there any wikitext constructions that are actually going to be
> deprecated?

I'm not privy to the architecture decisions, but I'm pretty sure that
the absolute worst monstrosity is the possibility of opening markup in a
(possibly deeply recursive or, worse, conditional) template that is
closed in a different template.  Getting it rid of /just/ that would
lose us no content (though it would break some frankenstein-grade
markup) and gain us a couple orders of magnitude in parsoid reliability
and simplicity.

And probably would make most of the VE team cry in relief.

-- Marc