Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-168424-20151014200720/@comment-24473195-20151015114635

I doubt they'll change it. Tables, notices, infoboxes and quotes are generally written using wikitext anyway. So even though they haven't explicitly used wikitext as examples in the page it is still applicable.

A good discusion on wikitext was presented in wikimania recently, and it does include some ideas on new approaches and advice:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Templates_are_dead!_Long_live_templates!.pdf

Basically, they'll keep singing the same old song: separate presentation and data from processing. There is unfortunately no way around that.

That's why I said, the less wikitext one uses the better. For example, a wiki page might not render at all if it has something like 1000 links because each local link requires a query to verify that it exists. The same applies to having loads of wikitext in templates and pages. The more you have the slower the page becomes, until either the limiter blocks the template or wikitext or the page has a timeout and doesn't render.