Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/More minimal functionality/reply (3)

+50 to this, Arthur. Jorm, you don't seem to understand why wikimarkup is the major asset of the Mediawiki software, and you think of it as a liability (likely from legitimate performance concerns, that need to be solved - but not at the cost of getting rid of all the semantic possibilities of the platform).

I'm worried about the design that you can create starting from the assumption that Wikimarkup is something from the past, when it's the world's first and successful example of a semantic platform, and the way all computer systems will work in the future (with more friendly editors, of course, but certainly with a semantic platform beneath them). Now if you were talking of building FLOW on top of Wikidata in order to make Wikimarkup obsolete, that I would understand; but that doesn't seem to be what you're buidling here.