On 24 August 2012 20:16, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
One idea we've been kicking around here is the idea that, for brand new wikis, instead of storing wikitext, we could offer an alternate configuration where we store the HTML5+RDFa representation instead of wikitext, thus making Parsoid an optional feature rather than a requirement for running MediaWiki. This approach means that editors on a wiki using VisualEditor without Parsoid would not be able to edit wikitext at all. The upside of this approach is simplicity for both editors and administrators. The downside of this approach is that it will be a while before VisualEditor will be able to support enough of the features of wikitext such that *all* editors can forego direct wikitext access and still have a fully-functional wiki. So, this idea is (I think) still in the "hey, maybe we could do that" stage rather than a fixed part of the plan.
Obsoleting Wikitext is a wonderful, wonderful idea and much to be desired.
So is it a meaningful concept to directly edit said well-structured computer guacamole? By which I mean "not less difficult than directly editing the present ad-hoc computer guacamole".
- d.