On 6 February 2012 19:09, Amgine <amgine(a)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.