[Wikimedia-l] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass

[Marc A. Pelletier]

On 07/30/2013 05:23 PM, James Forrester wrote:
> ​That'd be great, yes (and really easy to do using Parsoid's DOM) - we
> could do annotations, comments, content collapsing, etc. - but I can't see
> how it would work with wikitext in a way that would leave it
> sanely-editable for users. I'm not sure we want to start building features
> that only for work VisualEditor users at this point.

Surely the solution is as simple as making that a first class syntactic
element with a well-defined open and close syntax rather than rely on
template trickery.

-- Marc