The solution to all this seems simple to me. Have the site just accept both formats, the old wiki format and the new [not yet decided] format. Then each page wi

The solution to all this seems simple to me. Have the site just accept both formats, the old wiki format and the new [not yet decided] format. Then each page will just have to have a format option. Then, slowly, pages can be converted, even if manually - perhaps just auto-converting and then fixing the manual stuff. And I'm sure there's a number of articles that are just simple links and they can be converted right away. You can put bounties or some kind of incentive for people to take on the conversion, but I think if the new format is better, a number of people will feel strongly enough about it to want to convert each article when it's updated. And even if 12 years from now some articles aren't converted, so what?