On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Subramanya Sastry <ssas...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > When [a detailed list of stuff is] done, it become far more feasible to think > of defining > a spec for wikitext parsing that is not tied to the internals of mediawiki > or its extensions. At that point, you could implement templating via Lua or > via JS or via Ruby ... the specifics are immaterial. What matters is those > templating implementations and extensions produce output with certain > properties. You can then specify that mediawiki-HTML is a series of > transformations that are applied to the output of the wikitext parser ... > and where there can be multiple spec-compliant implementations of that > parser. > > I think it is feasible to get there. But, whether we want a spec for > wikitext and should work towards that is a different question.
In our planning meeting (E250), we discussed this issue as a possibility for next week's ArchCom office hour (E259). We don't (yet) have a specific RFC we can point to, but this seems ripe for a discussion to answer whether we should work toward a spec. Thoughts? Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
