On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Maximilian Doerr <[email protected]> wrote:
> I strongly disagree with removing wiki text.  Several thousand bots depend
> on it.  Especially Cluebot NG which is a highly sophisticated anti-vandalism
> bot.  I rcommend going our current route where the visual editor writes the
> Wikimarkup realtime and vice versa.

I think any problems can be solved with something similar (identical?)
to HTTP content negotiation at the API layer.

For backwards-compatibility purposes, we could conceivably wrap the
contents of non-Wikitext with parser tags.  However, that doesn't
*really* solve the problem for bots, but rather just exposes it as a
problem that bots already have to deal with.

Rob

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