On 19 January 2015 at 05:43, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 January 2015 at 01:46, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> There's also fourteen years of legacy page versions which I think
> absolutely nobody is going to convert.
>

​Code is very good at "just doing it" if we wanted to do it.​ A few billion
revisions are just ephemeral details if it actually makes sense to change
over. Not that we should do it blindly, but this shouldn't hold us back.

​J.
-- 
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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