On 9/25/09 1:18 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > 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 > The latter case for sure. Without the additional information, editing a template call will just be a list of field names and text inputs.
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