I've been lurking on this list for a while now, waiting for the time to actually work on the Mediawiki code. Therefore, I was very interested in the proposed summer of code project "Wikitext parser rewrite"(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2006#Wikitext_parser_rewrite)
I am going to submit an application when I can, but I have a clarifying question: Since wikitext does not appear to be even context-free, will we be allowed to change how wikitext works? (I.e. if the internal link syntax turns out (as I think it will) to be non-context-free (and therefore there is not a parser generator for it), will the student be able to change the syntax?)
Sincerely, [[en:User:Simonfairfax|Silas Snider]]
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