On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Aryeh GregorSimetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
From the editor's point of view. Not from the view of the HTML source, which is what the original proposal was looking at.
I guess.
I'm starting to get the initial pangs of an idea that we should have different kinds of syntax:
1) Article pages should only be allowed simplified syntax: no parser functions, nothing funky at all. You want to use weird features, you must wrap it in a template 2) Normal templates can use the full range of existing syntax 3) A limited number of admin-controlled special templates can use an even wider range of features, including raw HTML.
Then, if you really specific HTML for a very specific, widely used template, you could, without opening up any cans of worms.
[The benefit from 1) above is less unreadable wikitext in article space, though I suspect that's fairly limited already, and unreadable wikitext is mostly from <refs> and massive templates like {{cite}} ]
Steve