Thread:Extension talk:ParserFunctions/Suggestion: new function ifnot/reply (3)

It's undesirable to pile on more and more complicated magic words. However, wiki text is ultimately the single most desirable programming medium for wikis, as it embraces the wiki philosophy by putting control directly into the hands of the general community of wiki users. The problem &mdash; daunting, but not impossible &mdash; is to fashion wiki markup into a language suitable for that sort of radically user-driven programming.