Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cutting MediaWiki loose from wikitext

2012-04-10 Thread badon
It sounds like what is being proposed is basically an open parser system. Perhaps it could be done seamlessly, much like parser functions, where multiple syntaxes can be mixed on a single page. For example, Lua scripting has already been proposed, and the goals of that proposal may be compatible wi

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cutting MediaWiki loose from wikitext

2012-03-27 Thread Jan Steinman
> From: Daniel Kinzler > > I propose a pluggable handler system for different > types of content, similar to what we have for file uploads. So, I propose to > associate a "content model" identifier with each page, and have handlers for > each model that provide serialization, rendering, an editor

[Mediawiki-l] Cutting MediaWiki loose from wikitext

2012-03-26 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi all. I have a bold proposal (read: evil plan). To put it briefly: I want to remove the assumption that MediaWiki pages contain always wikitext. Instead, I propose a pluggable handler system for different types of content, similar to what we have for file uploads. So, I propose to associate a "c