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

[David Gerard]

On 30 July 2013 09:06, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoekstra at gmail.com> wrote:

> 6. Announce a date from where on saving a page with a transcluded legacy
> template will be blocked. Expect public outcry.
> An important consideration that all developers must keep in mind is that
> though the current syntax is quite horrible, it also serves a purpose, and
> though its existence in itself is quite horrible, the fact that it is
> widely used is completely reasonable.


The question then will be how to keep parsing old versions reasonably.
I suppose we could keep an old wikitext parser around. *shudder*

(Or just punt the question into the long grass. Do old page versions
pull in contemporary versions of the page's templates or use the
current versions? If the latter, then heh, too bad.)

[These are technical questions, but I think they have sufficient
impact to discuss more widely, e.g. on this list. Assuming enough
relevant devs are around to comment.]


- d.