On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Maximilian Doerr <cybernet678(a)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