On 28 December 2010 16:54, Stephanie Daugherty <sdaughe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not only is the current markup a barrier to participation, it's a barrier to > development. As I argued on Wikien-l, starting over with a markup that can > be syntacticly validated, preferably one that is XML based would reap huge > rewards in the safety and effectiveness of automated tools - authors of > tools like AWB have just as much trouble making software handle the corner > cases in wikitext markup as new editors have understanding it. In every discussion so far, throwing out wikitext and replacing it with something that isn't a crawling horror has been considered a non-starter, given ten years and terabytes of legacy wikitext. If you think you can swing throwing out wikitext and barring the actual code from human editing - XML is not safely human editable in any circumstances - then good luck to you, but I don't like your chances. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
