Hoi,
What is the "ease of implementation" other then being able to use the syntax
? When you say that geeks create templates, you forget that the majority of
our projects do not have the geeks to support all these weird and wonderful
templates. You forget that there are loads of MediaWiki installations
outside the WMF as well. REALLY, the inability of people to do this geek
thing is detrimental to the adoption of MediaWiki.
PS I have been a programmer for quite some years, I can submit to the WMF
SVN and I will not touch templates with a bargepole when I can help it. I
can because typically I refuse.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/7/8 Peter Gervai <grin...@gmail.com>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:16, Gerard Meijssen<gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The argument that a language should be readable and easy to learn is
> REALLY
> > relevant and powerful. A language that is only good for geeks is
> detrimental
> > to the use of MediaWiki. Our current templates and template syntax are
> > horrible. Wikipedia is as a consequence hardly editable by everyone.
>
> Mortals _use_ the templates, not _create_ them. Geeks create templates
> for mortals.
>
> Current syntax is indeed horrible, but complete readibility is not the
> main issue I'd say. Security, speed and flexibility should be, along
> the ease of implementation.
>
> Peter
>
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