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.

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