Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33168089-20170821015513/@comment-126761-20170920012220

I would like to stress once more that this is an experiment - we absolutely recognise the value of wikitext and its many features and extensions, but we would like to test whether there are more ways of making user-contributed knowledge-bases that may offer significant advantages. It may be that this particular style is not an approach that works - but it's worth trying out. The fact we're testing it does not guarantee that it'll be rolled out widely - it may only ever be appropriate for a particular kind of community, for example (or even none at all).

I would note that the experimental editor actually includes it's own kind of querying markup that lets you construct tables of data, for example - it's more than just basic formatting abilities. (However, that may not be super-clear in the current version.)