On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
Do you believe that declaring "the implementation is the spec" is a sustainable way of encouraging contribution to our projects?
Reimplementing Wikipedia's parser (complete with template inclusions, Wikidata fetches, Lua scripts, LaTeX snippets and whatever else) is practically impossible. What we do or do not declare won't change that.
There are many other, more realistic ways to encourage contribution by users who are interested in wikis, but not in Wikimedia projects. (Supporting Markdown would certainly be one of them.) But historically the WMF has shown zero interest in the wiki-but-not-Wikimedia userbase, and no other actor has been both willing and able to step up in its place.