[Wikitext-l] Wikitext Madness of the Day: List Items

[David Gerard]

On 11 August 2010 17:11, Liangent <liangent at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/11/10, Daniel Kinzler <daniel at brightbyte.de> wrote:

>> Or keep the old parser around to deal with old revisions. Revisions that
>> work
>> with the new parser can be flagged as such.

> This made me think of Quirks mode in browsers.
> We can make the new parser (and standardized wikitext syntax) more
> strict by treating many edge cases as errors, and if the new parser
> detected any error when parsing, use the old parser instead.


If Tim will buy it :-) The non-quirks mode had better cover *almost
all* current revisions on the major WMF wikis, at the least. (The most
recent current version dumps would be suitable test data.)


- d.