On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
<This reply is still my own personal views, and in
no way represents
anything official>
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Martijn Hoekstra <
martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com
wrote:
If we have to resort to such magic to make
templates do what we want,
templates are quite simply broken; how can we explain that to a newcomer.
"To help with these templates, all you have to know about are wikitext
templates, our own implementation of lisp, Javascript, and Lua, and
you'll
be good to go". I suspect the number of
people in the world who know how
to
do that is very close to 1. Especially for
usecases like this, we need
something less complicated.
If "we" (TINW) actually want dialogs (which I'm not convinced of beyond a
few very special cases), trying to do it in templates with embedded code is
the wrong way to do it.
Well, that's the discussion I'm trying to open: If that's the wrong way, is
there a right way (yet) ? I'd like to look at this from the perspective of
what the correct way would be to make that happen.
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