Translations:Wikitext standard/1/en

A single wikitext standard is of great importance for the long-term stability of the MediaWiki software. We need to describe and formalize a 1.0 version of the Wikitext language, based on what is used currently. In other words this work should not (for right now) involve incorporating improvements or changes to the Wikitext language. Releases must be stable and predictable so that other software developers can work to the same markup syntax, and know for sure that they will not be facing random or arbitrary changes for some fixed time period, like a year. This suggests there may be wikitext 2005, wikitext 2006 and so on.