Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-168424-20151014200720/@comment-24473195-20151014214955

Fandyllic wrote: Avoiding wikitext on a wiki seems both counter-intuitive and problematic. The latest source editor does a pretty good job of coloring wikitext and showing problems. Not really, there is almost nothing that wikitext can do that lua can't. So it is entirely possible to avoid all wikitext in all wiki pages.

Also, currently, Wikimedia is currently discussing a move towards making it possible to use a wiki without wikitext (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112999), basically using html or possibly markdown. In fact, VisualEditor is just an HTML editor, the parser it uses to render wikitext is not really necessary.

So there is nothing really problematic about it.