Wikitech-l on behalf of Rob Lanphier wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Legoktm
<legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The edit history of that page is telling.
Be bold.
It may be a little naive to hope [dogfooding] will
somehow make our
software better at doing the thing it was designed to do when we try to
force it to do something it wasn't designed to do.
What specifically are you arguing that MediaWiki was or was not designed
to do? Please, go on.
That said,
MediaWiki categories can be pretty powerful, and then
you can combine them with templates or things like DPL. We already have
such a system set up for RfCs on
mediawiki.org, I think making a similar
template and set of categories for summit proposals would be easy.
That seems like a lot of work where the time and effort is better spent
elsewhere.
Another teaser here. What exactly is your vision for MediaWiki?
Are you really suggesting in your reply that supporting yet another markup
language is more important and a higher priority than having usable
categorization and tagging systems? I'm genuinely curious where you think
time and effort is best spent.
MZMcBride