Has it ever been considered to separate the MediaWiki markup parser from the core MediaWiki project? It seems to me that if the parser stood on its own, it would help wiki adoption by allowing others to use the same syntax as the most popular wikis in the world (Wikipedia). As MediaWiki has pledged support for Creole, it seems that eventually the wiki parsing in MediaWiki will have to be converted to accomodate a common interface that works for both MediaWiki and Creole, so why not use this opportunity to free out the core parser? Gregory Szorc gregory.szorc(a)case.edu