Perpetuating it with a dedicated IDE wouldn't help it go away.
בתאריך 25 באוק 2014 20:51, "Martijn Hoekstra" <martijnhoeks...@gmail.com>
כתב:

> 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
> > > > >
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