On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:02 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11 August 2010 17:11, Liangent <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 8/11/10, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> Or keep the old parser around to deal with old revisions. Revisions that
>>> work
>>> with the new parser can be flagged as such.
>
>> This made me think of Quirks mode in browsers.
>> We can make the new parser (and standardized wikitext syntax) more
>> strict by treating many edge cases as errors, and if the new parser
>> detected any error when parsing, use the old parser instead.
>
>
> If Tim will buy it :-) The non-quirks mode had better cover *almost
> all* current revisions on the major WMF wikis, at the least. (The most
> recent current version dumps would be suitable test data.)

Do we have a short list of "worst case scenario" pages, which use lots
of special cases for some reason, and that we could use as a test set?
Not something specially constructed, but real, live wikipedia pages.

Magnus

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