John Mark Vandenberg, 20/01/2016 01:57:
A raw dump (including all metadata) export functionality should be a hard requirement for any software put into production in Wikimedia.
Indeed. We don't have enough information to make any decision or even start considering things yet. I found my research: http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/a/25408/13986 it's cc-by-sa, someone please merge the information into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software :)
Nemo