Are the XML specifications intended as? A) A required addition to current and future templates
OR B) An optional addition to aid / facilitate the functioning of some advanced tools The latter case seems far more achievable than the former case. -Robert Rohde On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/9/25 Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu>: >> Also, I am quite serious about my point that an entirely >> new language interface specification will be added to MediaWiki and that it >> will be widely adopted and propagate throughout the wikisphere, much like >> parser functions, and in the end will make the job of fixing MediaWiki much, >> much harder. > Whatever wikitext ends up becoming, it will probably still have > templates in some form. If the XML language is designed properly, it > won't make any assumptions about the current state of wikitext and > templates, other than that: > > * there are such things as templates > * they accept parameters > * parameters can, but need not, have names, types, descriptions, etc.; > types may or may not be enforced > > This very limited set of assumptions will hold in any language that > implements templates in a remotely sane way. > >> From what I have >> heard, there was a meeting about how to solve this problem among core devs >> and a few others at wikimedia headquarters, they decided what the solution >> would be > That's news to me; I'd very much like to hear from these people what > their proposed solution is. > >> , and now you guys are moving forward on implementing it, totally >> ignoring the strategy wiki. > You make it sound like we're just going ahead and doing this, totally > ignoring everyone else's opinions. Instead, we're proposing and > discussing it on this list to get input from other people. If you > think there's a more appropriate place to discuss this, just point us > there; don't go around blasting us because we failed to read your > mind. > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
