On 6 February 2012 21:02, Jay Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com> wrote:
Correct, and it isn't merely investments in
learning; there are likely
investments in wrap-around-the-outside coding which assume access to markup
as well. Not All Mediawikiae Are Wikipedia.
Your use of "likely" there turns out to be largely incorrect - one of
the biggest problems with wikitext is that it's all but unparsable by
machines other than the original parser routines in MediaWiki. That
fact was one of the inspirations for this list existing at all: to
come up with a definition of wikitext that could be used by machine
parsers at all.
- d.