On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:34:17PM +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Installed
base, for our purposes, is two things:
1) pages in the databases.
2) rules in people's heads.
The first is easy to fix, you just grind.
Grind what? Is there an exhaustive list of all MediaWiki installs
somewhere? I very much doubt it. We can test against WMF and Wikia
databases, and maybe a handful of others, but there's no way we can
check every install.
Sure there isn't.
As I've pointed out myself, several times, it's really easy to come up
with reasons why parser/markup reform is a *bad* idea, that *won't*
work.
But there are reasonable solutions for almost every posited problem,
for suitable values of reasonable.
Cheers,
-- jra
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