On 12/6/11 4:45 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
Title, User, PageOutput, and Skin rewrites not radical enough for a 2.0?
Nobody but MediaWiki developers really cared about the details of the Title rewrite. True, it might help users in ways they don't know about. But I think 2.x is supposed to be a signal to others that they should pay attention -- distributors, or those that offer MediaWiki as a service, or end users.
Similarly, the Semantic Versioning standard (http://semver.org/) says that 2.0 == substantial API incompatibility. I would bet that the parser rewrite is going to do that at least to some extensions. And if it also means that other wiki syntaxes become possible, then end users and bots will have to modify how they interact with wiki content.