On 11 August 2010 17:11, Liangent <liangent(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/11/10, Daniel Kinzler
<daniel(a)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.