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

[Martijn Hoekstra]

On Jul 30, 2013 3:49 AM, "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

I can dream up horrors you can't even imagine. Consider a template
consisting if two single quotes. For a demonstration, see
http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Martijn_Hoekstra/Lovecraftian_horror2

 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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