Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
It has been proposed, informally, that wikitext be
modified to prefer,
and then eventually require, new markers for bold and italic text
inline.
I would recommend against considering this at this time (if ever).
Hopping around changing basic syntax is probably not the thing to do
when in the middle of changing the parser mechanics.
-- brion vibber (brion @
wikimedia.org)