----- Original Message ----- > From: "George Herbert" <george.herb...@gmail.com>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > > Did anyone ever pull statistics about exactly how many instances of > > that Last Five Percent there really were, as I suspect I suggested at the > > time? > > Expansion off "how many instances..?" - The thing you want expanded, George, is "Last Five Percent"; I refer there to (I think it was) David Gerard's comment earlier that the first 95% of wikisyntax fits reasonably well into current parser building frameworks, and the last 5% causes well adjusted programmers to consider heroin... or something like that. :-) > At some point in the corner, the fix is to change the templates and > pages to match a more sane parser's capabilities or a more standard > specification for the markup, rather than make the parser match the > insanity that's already out there. > > If we know what we're looking at, we can assign corner cases to an > on-wiki cleanup "hit squad". Who knows how many of the corners we can > outright assassinate that way, but it's worth a go... The less used > it is and harder to code for it is, the easier it is for us to justify > taking it out. Yup; that's the point I was making. The argument advanced was always "there's too much usage of that ugly stuff to consider Just Not Supporting It" and I always asked whether anyone with larger computers than me had ever extracted actual statistics, and no one ever answered. Cheers, -- jra _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
