User:Cscott/Ideas/A Dozen Visions for Wikitext
< User:Cscott | Ideas
Talk idea: a dozen possible "wikitext 2.0" proposals, a dozen different ways future wikitext and templates might look. Maybe a panel discussion -- here are a starter dozen, bring your own!
- ArrayFunctions, etc: what a templating system based on handlebars/mustache/array functions might look like
- Versioning: a clause at the top of the article that would let you opt-in to new features, like "backtick for
<code>" - Grunge, a wildly simpler wikitext
- Heredocs
- Ditching the colon in parser functions / parser function & magic variable unification
- Markdown! (Real question is: what would the transclusion syntax look like?)
- HTML (wikitext is dead, long live the MediaWiki DOM Spec and Visual Editor)
- Abstract Wikipedia (let's not write at all! / how does one "write" in a language-independent way?)
- Language Converter on steroids -> writing in all languages at the same time.
- Annotations everywhere
- A composition grammar for transclusions / a world of fragments
- PageMaker? More explicit control of the different elements of the article, with different languages (potentially) for each.