Am 10.04.2017 um 06:17 schrieb Denny Vrandečić: > Ah, good question indeed. The reason is that users would be actually > putting fragments of wikitext into the JSON structure, and then the JSON > structure gets assembled into wikitext. Not only would I prefer to have the > users work with fragments of wikitext than fragments of HTML, but some > things are almost impossible with HTML - e.g. making internal links red or > blue depending on the existence of the article, etc.
Why JSON? JSON is an absolute pain to edit by hand. HTML/XML, as annoying as it is, is still much better for that than JSON is. And Wikitext is designed to mix well with HTML. -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
