> I see little effort on finding solutions potentially able to scale to all our projects and languages
See my reply to your initial comment on that ticket. This was just a first hack at implementing this functionality. If you had simply asked if there were plans to expand this to other projects/languages the answer you would have received would have been "absolutely! this is just a first pass". I have pasted the referenced comment and response from that ticket below: > It's inappropriate an unsustainable to hardcode such wiki-specific parsing in our code. In the future please consider the tone and impact of your comments before clicking "post". Imagine you were, say, a first-time volunteer contributor and the first piece of feedback you received was the comment you posted above. How would that make you feel about even trying to contribute? I'm not saying there's not a kernel of truth in your comment, because there is*, but the way you phrased it actually inclines me to take your opinion, and you, far less seriously. *I agree it would indeed be better to have this endpoint work across all language wikis. I intend to examine such functionality, but as a first pass I chose to implement the core logic for my native language. My implementation should be fairly easy to modify, as well, because I had this eventuality in mind throughout development. On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it considered acceptable now to produce a service or API that hardcodes > wiki-specific parsing of certain wikitext or HTML patterns in certain wiki > pages (such as the "On this day" section of the main page of one wiki)? > > I'm confused by the status of things and after my comment > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143408#2919000 I see little effort on > finding solutions potentially able to scale to all our projects and > languages (which I assume to be the mission, see "globally" in > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement ; please point it > out if this assumption is incorrect). > > It might be that wiki-specific parsing hardcoded in MediaWiki/Wikimedia > code is actually able to scale, if written correctly; a comment on the > association patch seemed to imply so. This would be a very surprising > finding, and one which goes against 15 years of experience, so if we have > some examples or evidence of this it would be very worthwhile to point them > out. > > Nemo > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >
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