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From: "Daniel Friesen" daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com
On 2015-01-18 5:29 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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From: "James Forrester" jforrester@wikimedia.org Three quick examples of things on the horizon (I'm not particularly saying we'd actually do these for Wikimedia's use, but if you're going to ask for straw man arguments… :-)):
- Get rid of wikitext on the server-side.
Are we still litigating "should we piss off the power user editors* in the service of making things easier for notional new ones"?
Or have I misunderstood the suggestion?
Parsoid can do Parsoid DOM to WikiText conversions. So I believe the suggestion is that storage be switched entirely to the Parsoid DOM and WikiText in classic editing just becomes a method of editing the content that is stored as Parsoid DOM in the backend.
Aha! Sorry; I was behind on Parsoid, was the problem. Yeah, if there's a way to edit in MWtext, both for humans and programs, then that serves the use cases I would be concerned about. Thanks for the prompt clarification, Daniel.
Cheers, -- jra