On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:48 AM, dgerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Realistically, Tim has already stated we're not
throwing out wikitext
because of the huge body of text already in it.
Not in the foreseeable future, but maybe someday. We'd just need a
very careful and thorough migration plan.
WYSIWYG editing is
getting there bit by bit - FCKeditor would be fine on a fresh wiki
without the unspeakable atrocities inventive geeks have perpetrated
upon wikitext on en:wp and should continue to get better at dealing
with more obtusities.
Funnily enough, I just talked to a user in #mediawiki asking why
FCKeditor didn't work right on his wiki when copy-pasting from MS
Word.