On Oct 25, 2014 7:20 PM, "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > > Because, even though I'm well aware of the fact that lots of experienced > wikipedians love wiki syntax, the wiki syntax must go away, and will go > away. Maybe in five years, maybe ten, maybe twenty. But it will go away. > Investing effort in an IDE for it is pointless.
So fortunately we didn't invest in something five years ago with an expected lifespan of 10 to 25 years? > > Templates are, indeed, programs. Articles aren't. Wikidata and Winter (or > something like Winter) will remove the need to edit transclusions as part > of the articles' source code in maybe three years (maybe much less). > Development should focus on that, rather than on an IDE for a language that > should as soon as possible become transparent to all editors. > > (This is not an official representation of the Wikimedia Foundation's > opinion.) > בתאריך 25 באוק 2014 19:40, "Martijn Hoekstra" <martijnhoeks...@gmail.com> > כתב: > > > On Oct 25, 2014 6:17 PM, "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il > > > wrote: > > > > > > Thank goodness this wasn't written five years ago, otherwise somebody > > could > > > get the awful idea to implement it. > > > > Having a side by side really time wikitext - display doesn't sound like an > > aweful idea at all to me. I'm quite surprised anyone would find that aweful > > actually. I don't understand why you're so dismissive of that idea. > > > > --Martijn > > > בתאריך 25 באוק 2014 18:26, "Kim Bruning" <k...@bruning.xs4all.nl> כתב: > > > > > > > I spotted this article linked from news.ycombinator.com, > > > > arguing -well- what it says on the tin. ;-) > > > > > > > > Apologies if someone else already posted a link. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/wikipedia-needs-an-ide-not-a-wysiwyg-editor-7acd85b582c8 > > > > > > > > I'm not sure <scratches head>. Well, if we allow lua in templates, > > > > I suppose things actually are already pretty Interesting. > > > > > > > > sincerely, > > > > Kim Bruning > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>