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:Again, I can understand why that could be a problem, given the way the site is currently structured with monolithic task pages. Migrating toward the Semantic MediaWiki feature set should allow us to clean and organize things in a more fine-grained fashion, such as by allowing individual code examples to be tagged with the language features they exploit. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 13:54, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

:: Don't you fear that a don't-delete-stuff-so-long-as-it's-legal strategy could lead to good code getting lost in crufty, mediocre code, and to people adding trivial variations just for ego's sake? This isn't the first time that I deleted something for the sake of improving the site. —[[User:Underscore|Underscore]] ([[User talk:Underscore|Talk]]) 18:20, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

::: # Crufty, mediocre code -- We already have that, even in areas without apparent redundancy. ''Every'' time I see RC linked to from Reddit, ycombinator or some other geek link aggregate-and-comment place, I see complaints about the code quality not being that great. That's why we have [[Template:incorrect]] and other ENAs. I've been investigating ways of automating some components of code review to help maintain and improve quality.

::: # Code getting lost -- Not especially, particularly if a language's multiple tacks on the same task can be differentiated by approach, illustrating different ways the language can be used. I ''especially'' expect to see multiple-tacks taken as more third-party libraries are demonstrated. DirectX vs OpenGL vs SDL, DirectComputer versus CUDA vs OGL4, Linux's ALSA vs SDL vs POSIX's OSS vs Win32's WaveOut. Language/Task isn't the only pair of intersections I want or expect to see Rosetta Code implement.

::: # Trivial variations just for ego's sake -- I don't know. I can't define what "trivial" means within a language I don't know, and I know (through personal experience) that the word "trivial" is tied very closely to individual experience and competence. As long as the difference between two separate code examples can be described in meaningful terms, then I think there's likely to be value there--I can use those described differences in structuring the site and ''aiding'' browsability.

::: By and large, the installation of Semantic MediaWiki is intended to help address these problems, by making the wiki software aware of the differences between examples(what task, what language, what library, what paradigm), and allowing us to create navigation pages and shortcuts. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 19:34, 1 August 2010 (UTC)