What's the status of the project to create a grammar for Wikitext in EBNF?
There are two pages:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitext_Metasyntax
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec
Nothing seems to have happened since January this year. Also the comments on
the latter page seem to indicate a lack of clear goal: is this just a fun
project, is it to improve the existing parser, or is it to facilititate a
new parser? It's obviously a lot of work, so it needs to be of clear
benefit.
Brion requested the grammar IIRC (and there's a comment to that effect at
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7
), so I'm wondering what became of it.
Is there still a goal of replacing the parser? Or is there some alternative
plan?
Steve