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

[Peter Southwood]

Beside being  way more effort than it is worth, what is particularly 
Lovecraftian about that?
Cheers,
Peter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martijn Hoekstra" <martijnhoekstra at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass 
(was: Visual Editor)


> 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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