On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Maximilian Doerr cybernet678@yahoo.com wrote:
I strongly disagree with removing wiki text. Several thousand bots depend on it. Especially Cluebot NG which is a highly sophisticated anti-vandalism bot. I rcommend going our current route where the visual editor writes the Wikimarkup realtime and vice versa.
I think any problems can be solved with something similar (identical?) to HTTP content negotiation at the API layer.
For backwards-compatibility purposes, we could conceivably wrap the contents of non-Wikitext with parser tags. However, that doesn't *really* solve the problem for bots, but rather just exposes it as a problem that bots already have to deal with.
Rob