[Foundation-l] How do you fully consult the community consensus?

2009-06-30 Thread Brian
Going forward, how does the Foundation plan to make large changes to the software in full consultation with the community consensus? Is the assumption that all of the members of the community who are knowledgeable and interested have already signed up to the relevant mailing lists and all that is

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

2009-06-30 Thread Brian
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > I'm not sure how one would make your hook system work in a way that > was practical and not totally opaque to the editor. > > An idea that has been toyed with a couple of other places is to allow > defined blocks and references to them in artic

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

2009-06-30 Thread Robert Rohde
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: >> As many folks have noted, our current templating system works ok for >> simple things, but doesn't scale well -- even moderately complex >> conditionals or text-munging will quickly turn your te

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

2009-06-30 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/7/1 Brian : > Editors clearly need a better system for declaring facts about > articles and then using them in advanced template programming. One can > imagine an alternate system where his birthday is only declared once, > like so, in the article text: born on [[birthday::July 6, 1946]]. And

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

2009-06-30 Thread Brian
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > As many folks have noted, our current templating system works ok for > simple things, but doesn't scale well -- even moderately complex > conditionals or text-munging will quickly turn your template source into > what appears to be line noise.

Re: [Foundation-l] "antisocial production" & pt:wiki policies

2009-06-30 Thread Mark Williamson
Behavior on many projects IS outrageous; when someone complains the response is almost universally that the foundation doesn't get involved in local project business. Mark skype: node.ue On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: >> Marc, you comment

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia article traffic statistics - copyright?

2009-06-30 Thread Peter Gervai
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:01, Ray Saintonge wrote: >> [1]. The Battle Over Who Owns Bus Arrival Times: > So why should a local squabble cause such a paranoid panic? Cos they're living in the United States of Litigations? ;-) g ___ foundation-l mailing