On 6 February 2012 19:09, Amgine amgine@wikimedians.ca wrote:
The concern I see being expressed, fundamentally, is "I have developed skills, practices, and efficiencies with current Wiki syntax. Is your new parser going to destroy my investments in learning? am I going to have to start over with this new system?" As I understand it, for the foreseeable future there will be a raw wiki syntax interface available. I hope contributors can be reassured on this point.
I understand that is indeed the plan. A lot of the problems with a visual editor at all have been that wikitext is such a mess, but throwing it away is not possible.
- d.