User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Profile and Message Wall on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-35628462-20200305182414/@comment-24006128-20200305182932

We're not deleting wikitext.

The software we selected for the rebuild of Message Wall does not support wikitext, as it is not a wiki-based code. Refactoring wikitext into the software chosen would be a SIGNIFICANT project unto itself.

The existing solution, which does support wikitext as it is based in MediaWiki, is one of the features which has made upgrading the rest of MediaWiki very difficult. Since wikitext use not replicated by Feeds formatting accounts for such a small percentage of the total usage, we felt the decision to leave wikitext behind was justified.