Oh, it will remain, just internally. Maybe some day it will be replaced with pure XML, but that day is far away, and by the time it happens editors aren't supposed to care. (That's just me fantasizing; Parsoid people may have a different idea.)
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014-10-25 21:44 GMT+03:00 Mark <delir...@hackish.org>: > On 10/25/14, 7:20 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > >> Because, even though I'm well aware of the fact that lots of experienced >> wikipedians love wiki syntax, the wiki syntax must go away, and will go >> away. Maybe in five years, maybe ten, maybe twenty. But it will go away. >> Investing effort in an IDE for it is pointless. >> > > What do you expect it to be replaced with? I don't care about wikitext per > se, but as an external consumer of the open-source data dumps, having > articles be in *some* kind of markup format is quite useful to me. The same > is true for editing bots, among other things. And as long as there is some > format, the IDE can simply target that format. :-) > > I can imagine many ways the markup format could be better, so by all means > let's improve it. But I can also imagine a lot of ways the situation could > be worse— such as not having a markup format! > > Best, > Mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
