On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla(a)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.