Apparently wikipedia's format is a pain to parse. I think jgm posts here as fiddlosopher he is the best source for the gory details... But there is definitely

Apparently wikipedia's format is a pain to parse. I think jgm posts here as fiddlosopher he is the best source for the gory details... But there is definitely sufficient motivation just google "convert wikipedia to" for some examples. I think that the arcane syntax is a big lockin factor with large wikipedia based sites... There is a ticket for it: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/388 https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/388