* dgerard dgerard@gmail.com [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:48:16 +0100]:
Realistically, Tim has already stated we're not throwing out wikitext because of the huge body of text already in it. WYSIWYG editing is getting there bit by bit - FCKeditor would be fine on a fresh wiki without the unspeakable atrocities inventive geeks have perpetrated upon wikitext on en:wp and should continue to get better at dealing with more obtusities.
It should be possible to have wikitext and XML in parallel, even mixed - there are already parser tags for extensions and I remember Robert Rohde wrote they can be patched to work recursively. Dmitriy