On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
If, for example, we can build some sort of per-revision indicator of markup language (sort of similar to mime type) which would let us support multiple parsers on the same wiki, then it would be possible to build alternate parsers that people could try out on a per-article basis (and more importantly, revert if it doesn't pan out). The thousands of MediaWiki installs could try out different syntax options, and maybe a clear winner would emerge.
Or you end up supporting 5 different parsers that people like for slightly different reasons :)
-Chad