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I would be highly interested in Moving Wikipedia to Markdown in sphinx with own repo in git. But this poses issue to people who want to use a WYIWYG Editor and

I would be highly interested in Moving Wikipedia to Markdown in sphinx with own repo in git. But this poses issue to people who want to use a WYIWYG Editor and not git it away.

klodolph 6y ago
It also poses a major problem for advanced usage (templates, math, citations, etc.) Markdown is a decent language for basic stuff like Reddit, Stack Overflow, GitHub READMEs, etc. Stuff where the most important feature is making it easy for people to make content. Places like Wikipedia or blogs are where Markdown doesn’t work so well. Sure, you want it to be relatively easy for people to edit Wikipedia pages, but it’s worth sacrificing ease of editing because you want to improve the reading experience.
mhh__ 6y ago
They'd need to think a lot bigger and better than markdown. Honestly, wikipedia would be a great proving ground for a hypothetical evolution of LaTeX
- warmwaffles 6y ago
  The whole right to left and left to right orientation is definitely a difficult thing to solve. On top of that, you'd need to figure out a way to have translations live along side the article itself.
- BlueTemplar 6y ago
  LaTeX itself is a big mess...