RFC (WIP): develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki
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	• RobLa-WMF
	Jun 16 2016, 6:16 AM

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This is a placeholder for a more complete TechCom-RFC. At E212, @RobLa-WMF volunteered to take some of his existing writeup on this subject, and post it in a (very rough) RFC.

The result:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Markdown

Markdown support isn't intended to replace MediaWiki markup for all uses (especially on Wikimedia sites), but the proposal is intended as a (hopefully) interesting thought exercise during the summer travel season and as a hallway-track discussion topic during Wikimania. Related discussions: T127329, T112999#2377981

Markdown is "a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can be converted to HTML and many other formats using a tool by the same name" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown).

IRC discussions

E218: ArchCom RFC Meeting: Markdown support? (2016-06-22, #wikimedia-office) log

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Mentioned In: E218: ArchCom RFC Meeting: Markdown support? (2016-06-22, #wikimedia-office)
P3299 ArchCom-RFC-2016W25-irc-E218.txt
Mentioned Here: E218: ArchCom RFC Meeting: Markdown support? (2016-06-22, #wikimedia-office)
T112999: Let MediaWiki operate entirely without wikitext
T127329: Using Parsoid as a wikitext bridge for importing content into wikitext format

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• RobLa-WMF created this task.Jun 16 2016, 6:16 AM

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• RobLa-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 20 2016, 11:41 PM

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The RFC on wiki has been updated quite a bit since this Phab task was first created:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Markdown

The IRC office hour described at E218 is happening on the #wikimedia-office IRC channel in around 90 minutes. Some discussion has happened on-wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Markdown

I'm looking forward to more discussion on this topic!

Scott_WUaS updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 22 2016, 9:08 PM

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• RobLa-WMF mentioned this in P3299 ArchCom-RFC-2016W25-irc-E218.txt.Jun 22 2016, 10:41 PM

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• RobLa-WMF triaged this task as Low priority.Jun 30 2016, 8:45 PM

• RobLa-WMF moved this task from P1: Define to Old on the TechCom-RFC board.

Danny_B added a project: Proposal.Jul 3 2016, 7:27 PM

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Aklapper removed • RobLa-WMF as the assignee of this task.Nov 7 2016, 11:11 PM

daniel mentioned this in E218: ArchCom RFC Meeting: Markdown support? (2016-06-22, #wikimedia-office).Dec 9 2016, 7:43 AM

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