User blog comment:Deadcoder/Petition to Allow Verbatim/@comment--20150918183624/@comment-24473195-20150918205319

Sounds like Extension:External_Data, as long as they disable the SMW option. I think it could be a viable extension, assuming it doesn't have serious performance/security related issues. You could contact C and ask them to review it. Although I've heard that a review only happens once every six months.

But perhaps the impending death of verbatim may push the review. Another idea might be white listing more html5 elements. Although that also requires security reviews.