Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-24692230-20191025224121

Fandyllic wrote: Mira Laime wrote:

No, the Forum content is transferred over to Discussions in HTML form. So it'll look the same, templates will appear as they were, but the wikitext markup won't be saved. You won't see the difference, but it would be impossible to later tranlate the posts back into wikitext.

@FizzFire: Edits on regular MediaWiki pages are not affected by the Forum retirement.

Just to note, losing the wikitext is a data loss, just not necessarily an important one. I'm also not sure anyone has looked that closely to see if the re-render when generating the archived versions in Discussions hasn't lost data due to intermittent parsing problem. When the mass conversion happens during the official retire of Forum, we'll have to see if there are more problems. Looking at some of the examples above, eg, polls and images, I'd say its kinda important, especially if its all lost as soon as you edit it.