Oh, it will remain, just internally. Maybe some day it will be replaced
with pure XML, but that day is far away, and by the time it happens editors
aren't supposed to care. (That's just me fantasizing; Parsoid people may
have a different idea.)
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2014-10-25 21:44 GMT+03:00 Mark <delirium(a)hackish.org>rg>:
On 10/25/14, 7:20 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
Because, even though I'm well aware of the
fact that lots of experienced
wikipedians love wiki syntax, the wiki syntax must go away, and will go
away. Maybe in five years, maybe ten, maybe twenty. But it will go away.
Investing effort in an IDE for it is pointless.
What do you expect it to be replaced with? I don't care about wikitext per
se, but as an external consumer of the open-source data dumps, having
articles be in *some* kind of markup format is quite useful to me. The same
is true for editing bots, among other things. And as long as there is some
format, the IDE can simply target that format. :-)
I can imagine many ways the markup format could be better, so by all means
let's improve it. But I can also imagine a lot of ways the situation could
be worse— such as not having a markup format!
Best,
Mark
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