On 11/11/07, Soo Reams <soo(a)sooreams.com> wrote:
We agree a limit for X% of articles parsed correctly, such that if > X%
are correct then we say the parser is good and do some amount of
hand-editing on the remaining (100-X)%. Then someone* knocks up a very
Ok, I'll bite: 99%, where "correct" means "renders sufficiently well
that no
one would bother editing the wikitext to fix it".
rough "new wave" parser and runs a copy of, say, en: on top of it. We
all try it out and see for ourselves how much stuff
breaks. If too much,
refine the parser and repeat. Hopefully, we eventually reach X%
correctness; then we are happy and can think about how to roll it out
Let's think about rolling it out before we start. Let's not implement
a parser than find out that it's
impractical to roll it out.
Steve