User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Social Activity, the 2010 Editor, and Unpausing Migrations/@comment-1967967-20201001141931/@comment-26939652-20201001193513


 * "that is not how wikis/infoboxes/templates were intended to be used"

Yeah, I've seen the argument. But it is exactly how wikis are supposed to be used. It's a template language that gives a lot of freedom, with some limited programming language facilities like the parser functions.

When you give freedom, you need to not complain about what people do with it and from a software perspective, you need to take stock long and wide before you do any migration, because you cannot possibly anticipate what people have done. And that has become very apparent now, using contributors/administrators as guinea pigs.