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User:Johnjbarton

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About

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Retired physical chemist, physicist, book author, user-interface researcher, software engineer.

Interested in matter waves, decoherence, experimental physics, clear communications of physics to educated lay audiences.

Oh hey, I found myself on Wikipedia be accident one day: Barton–Nackman trick!

Johnjbarton (talk) 00:26, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Tools

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Sandboxes

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Library Todos

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Experience with Templates

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The template system is very irregular and confusing:

  • The regular expressions are non-standard and limited.
  • The string matching occurs on parsed wikitext, so you can't base patterns on reading wikitext.
  • some tags, esp. <ref> tags are magic and cannot be processed by template code.
  • many existing templates really only support special cases, eg {{Plain text}}