Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33168089-20170821015513/@comment-26923519-20170919184210

To be honest, there are a couple reasons why wikitext is still needed.


 * 1. Most of the long-time users, or source editor users, basically rely on wikitext when editing the source of a page, a template or other things.


 * 2. When the wikis will convert into the experimental design with wikitext removed, it would heavily mess up the formatting of many articles, and this is especially a problem in the bigger wikis with articles containing constructive and heavily formatted text. Say an article has the following: "VisualEditor" is a WYSIWYG editor." (just an example), with wikitext removed, it would be like this: " VisualEditor" is a WYSIWYG editor. " and the same would happen to many articles.

So at this point, I wouldn't like to see wikitext removed, especially because of these two problems.