Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33168089-20170821015513/@comment-32354545-20170823045038

I have had time to think about this, and I think I have some variously non-paranoid predictions. Here is what I see in the future.

I see some users and wikis benefiting from Lucy, from getting their wiki going faster than they could with a source code-based software and without any interested-and-technically-inclined users around to facilitate it all for them.

I see Lucy having a finite number of features, far less than those possible with source mode - and granted I see this being sufficient for many users and wikis.
 * I see that this implies the potential for an automated software export to similarly-displaying Mediawiki source code (identical display is not necessary) and an ethical obligation for this export to be made available. Some wikis will mature up, fill themselves with very competent users, and want to switch. They must not be denied this.
 * I see that Mediawiki source code will not uniformly import to Lucy; some users will want to switch to Lucy, and they should not be denied this either; it however cannot be as simple as a button click.

I see that Lucy editing will almost certainly not be implemented directly into Monobook, and I see based on Wikia's track record for special pages broken entirely in Monobook, only telling the user "switch to Wikia in preferences kthx" if not nothing (leaving it to them to find it out for themselves)
 * I fear that despite that 99% of Monobook users would be placated by an easily-achievable automatic redirect to ?useskin=wikia for purposes of editing Lucy wikis, or at least a clickable link provided, Wikia will choose instead to disenfranchise Monobook users with either a broken page or a "switch to Wikia in preferences kthx" exactly as they have pointlessly offended them on the pages I linked before

I fear that Special:CreateNewWiki shall have a giant Lucy option and a tiny Enable Source Code option as tiny, insignificant, unnoticeable, semi-transparent as the "Source Editor" button on Special:InfoboxBuilder