User blog comment:Kirkburn/VisualEditor - the past, present and future/@comment-4189499-20140629015727

Hey Wikia, are you ever going to add wikitext support to the VisualEditor? My wiki relies heavily on templates to be integrated directly into answers (it's an answers wiki) for things such as referencing, and they have been designed for easiest use in "source style", i.e. they are created so the user can easily add them by typing. All our help pages are made to reflect this, and both source and RTE editor accept this syntax and turn it into a template. Considering most of our editors are IP users, switching to the new VisualEditor before it's compatible with wikitext is just making editing harder, and it is really the only thing that stopped me from opting in our wiki earlier. I love the basic idea of the new VisualEditor, but until it can accept wikitext, I'm sorry, but it's more of a hindrance than a help, and is just going to dissuade editors.