Moin,
On Friday 14 April 2006 05:51, Tim Starling wrote:
William Allen Simpson wrote:
Conrad Dunkerson wrote:
- Tim Starling wrote:
The extension for mathematical expressions and conditional constructs has been enabled on all Wikimedia wikis, on a trial basis. Documentation is at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions
See the talk page for discussion.
Great! Wonderful job Tim! This is wonderful and will vastly simplify tons of things.
When Tim says "trial", how is the testing coordinated? Shouldn't it be tried on a few not too prominent places, rather than fix every qif now?
Where should I be looking for posts coordinating this?
The main reason I'm calling it a trial is to avoid appearing to have made a unilateral decision to enable it permanently. The critics of this concept now have one final chance to turn community opinion against it, before it becomes ingrained. However the reception has generally been positive. I've received a number of private compliments on it, in addition to what can be seen publically.
There really is nothing you can do it people absolutely, positively want to re-invent the wheel aka: a new programming language in completely new environment. I have said my reasons against it, and that's it.
Best wishes,
Tels