Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/ Black Magick/reply

The phrase "Black Magick and Other Trickery" is probably used here to imply the way non-technical people can sometimes view wikicode (ie. "we have to use colons to indent on talkpages, and 4-tildes to sign our posts) as being complex or "arcane". I'd suggest it's potentially related to the phrase "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Clarke's three laws).

Documentation and brainstorming pages, frequently contain informal phrases, metaphors, analogies, and even attempts at humor, that wouldn't belong in an encyclopedia article. Partially because developers are human, and would go crazy if they had to express everything in either code or in formal documentation. Partially because developers are creative souls and often like to indulge in creative writing. Partially for other reasons that I haven't thought of.