Quoting Sterling D. Allan, from the post of Mon, 14 Mar:
Some day, browsers will come equipped with WYSIWYG editors that will automatically detect the wiki code and present it in the most user-friendly manner possible.
ok, this is the third thread to open on the subject in two days. I feel like this is starting to look like a trolling frenzy.
Features like that are hard to implement, as people posted here. If you want your dream - build it and we will come. now let's make room on the list for other stuff.
(one tiny final note, I agree with Jan's view that a tool with more options does not necessarily cause users to start using it right. I prefer non-techie people to post informative articles, even if badly phrased or stylized and have other wikipedians fix it up for them, then have them avoid posting altogether.