https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24529
--- Comment #5 from S. McCandlish <smccandl...@gmail.com> 2011-08-16 08:01:59
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These concerns are not mutually exclusive, and really are part and parcel of
the same thing. The reasons to stop supporting obsolete <tt>-style stuff in
wikitext are numerous. The most obvious is that wikimarkup is not HTML. We
allow some basic [X]HTML for experienced, geeky users, but there's not
guaranteeing we'd do that forever and ever, and supporting BAD markup of this
sort is just pointless. Second, it encourages sloppy coding everywhere.
Wikipedia is the most, or one of the top three most, popular (depending on
stats source; I tend to think that Facebook and GMail have it beat) websites in
the world, so what we do actually has influence. We are lending extra "life
after death" to dead code. Third, code from WikiMedia projects like WP and
Wiktionary can be re-used anywhere by anyone, and we have no control over how
that is done. Just pasting stuff is surely pretty common, so bad code from WP
is getting out "into the wild". Not a huge concern, but we should at least
only support valid markup if we're going to allow HTML at all. Fourth editor
convenience is better served by templates. Fourth, no one really expect users
to have to enter stuff like <span style="text-decoration:
strike-through;">...<span>, when something like {{strike|...}} would do this
for them. And <s> a.k.a. <strike> is a bad example anwyay; it's pure
presentation with no semantic meaning, thus its obsolescence. The
<del>...</del> markup, is still valid (I'll eventually ensure that {{del|...}}
works at en.wp, too). Fifth, we shouldn't force users to learn INCORRECT HTML
and CSS for their regular editing, which is presently precisely the case.
Implemented the correct stuff, removed the bad, and give non-HTMLish users
templates.
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