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

[Rschen7754]

If I'm reading this right, it *would* cause massive problems on the English Wikipedia, with templates like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:S-start and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:S-end (170,303 transclusions).

Thanks,

Rschen7754
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On Jul 29, 2013, at 6:48 PM, "Marc A. Pelletier" <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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