On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Jay Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
[...] This has been done a dozen times in the last 5 years, lampak. The short version, as much as *I* am displeased with the fact that we'll never have *bold*, /italic/ and _underscore_, is that the installed base, both of articles and editors, means that Mediawikitext will never change.
That we've multiply concluded that it will never change doesn't mean it won't; as a thought exercise, as I suggested in OtherThread, we should consider negating that conclusion and seeing what happens.