On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske@googlemail.com
wrote:
There is the tempting but unclean (unclean!!) option of disallowing partial templates, then cleaning up certain constructs afterwards. A series of <ul></ul> nodes can be merged into one in DOM or text/regexp etc.
See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Visual_editor/software_design#Constraints
Reforming wikitext should be something we are considering. We did it before, and ran batch conversion. Back then it was on a much smaller number of articles, but it's been done.
- Trevor