----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Friesen" <dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com>
> On 2015-01-18 5:29 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "James Forrester" <jforres...@wikimedia.org> > >> Three quick examples of things on the horizon (I'm not > >> particularly saying > >> we'd actually do these for Wikimedia's use, but if you're going to > >> ask for straw man arguments… :-)): > >> > >> - Get rid of wikitext on the server-side. > > Are we still litigating "should we piss off the power user editors* > > in the > > service of making things easier for notional new ones"? > > > > Or have I misunderstood the suggestion? > Parsoid can do Parsoid DOM to WikiText conversions. So I believe the > suggestion is that storage be switched entirely to the Parsoid DOM and > WikiText in classic editing just becomes a method of editing the content > that is stored as Parsoid DOM in the backend. Aha! Sorry; I was behind on Parsoid, was the problem. Yeah, if there's a way to edit in MWtext, both for humans and programs, then that serves the use cases I would be concerned about. Thanks for the prompt clarification, Daniel. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
