On 10 February 2012 16:38, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:

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> From: "Oliver Keyes" <okeyes@wikimedia.org>

> *First, I don't think anyone is suggesting the underlying markup syntax
> will not still be usable as an alternative to plaintext

That seems the underlying concern.

No one *in a position of authority* is suggesting that, no.

Well, the lead on this is Trevor - if you look at his message at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitext-l/2012-February/000543.html:

"I will also confirm that we have no plan or intention to do any of the following:
- Disable markup (plain text) editing
- Allow visual editing to mangle plain text documents
- Make significant changes to what Wikitext is and can do"

That seems to be pretty clear, and it's hard to get a higher position of authority on this project than him.