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Revision as of 15:45, 12 July 2009
, 14 years ago→Stick with MediaWiki
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* MW is very powerful in the matter of ''user-created functionality'', using categories, templates, and sometimes bots. All of the structures we've built -- <nowiki>{{header}}</nowiki>, categorized and flat indexes of examples, "Tasks not implemented in", etc. -- all of this does not need attention from RC administrators/programmers. Consider MediaWiki like a general-purpose programming language: if we create something that is adapted to what we want now, it will lack generality and make it difficult for people to come up with ideas for improvements and ''just do them''. (Of course, this is moot if we invent a ''better wiki'' rather than Rosetta Code-specific software.
--[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 21:41, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
::Maintaining a wiki software is not something easy. But MW is really powerful. But sometimes lacks features that we need. Like some insoluble problems, like "C sharp bug". With the new software, we can stop using bots, because we can do a "Tasks not implemented in" in real time. We don't to need maintain a PHP script, but we need to maintain a bot. Bots are very unstable. (See [[Tasks_not_implemented_in_LaTeX]]). With a specific software, we don't need to adapt MW. It will be more stable, and we can do everything, without limitations. A example: RC changed "lang tags" a time ago. What happened? Today, we are still using deprecated tags in most Tasks. A transition have "pros and cons", but we really should think and discuss about this before doing anything. --[[User:Guga360|Guga360]] 15:44, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
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