Yes, you have a point. The problem is that I wanted to reuse the google closure editor, which manipulates pure html.
Anyway, I've *slightly* cleaned the sources (at least it builds smoothly, with the latest version of the required tools as explained in the README), and it is online at http://github.com/williamleferrand/mediawiki-ocaml-js If anyone is willing to investigate on my work I'll be pleased to answer all the questions that may occur! I wrote this code primarily as a "proof of concept" for the ocaml to javascript toolchain, but if it can help wikipedia it would be great. I've included a brief roadmap in the README, but of course it is only what I have in mind right now. Best, William 2010/8/13 Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com>: > 2010/8/13 William Le Ferrand <will...@corefarm.com>: >> 1) No, I haven't check that. It is a very important issue, but if the >> current result is not correct it should be a matter of fixing a few >> bugs here and there, not a global design issue. >> > There is a very fundamental issue with converting wikitext to HTML, > then back, which is that there are multiple wikitext alternatives that > produce the same HTML: [[Foo]] and [[Foo|Foo]] for instance. Earlier > versions of FCKeditor used to 'normalize' all links looking like > [[Foo]] to [[Foo|Foo]], which resulted absolutely hideous diffs that > were nigh impossible to review because the actual changes got buried > in lots of link 'normalizations'. This is what Trevor is talking about > when he asks about the "cleanliness of your diffs". > > I believe this particular bug was fixed, but the general point stands: > you need to somehow remember things about the wikitext that went in in > order to have a chance to get it back relatively unscathed. I > personally believe that the round-trip approach is fundamentally > flawed and that you should have some internal representation (not > HTML) closely connected to the wikitext in which you track changes, > but that's just my personal conviction and I'm not aware of any > successful editors built this way. > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- William Le Ferrand President Speed matters : http://www.corefarm.com Mobile : +33 6 31 27 18 55 LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/williamleferrand _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
