Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33168089-20170821015513/@comment-32354545-20170914091355

Lady Aleena wrote: This sounds bad, very bad. Wiki text is not that hard to learn. Sure it is limited, but that was the point.


 * italic text for italic text
 * bold text for bold text
 * = First tier header =
 * == Second tier head == (and it goes up to six)
 * * list item

Is the thinking behind this people are too lazy to learn the simple wiki markup? Lady Aleena (talk) 09:05, September 14, 2017 (UTC)

Seeing that no response has been given to my statement of an ethical requirement for a (clearly possible) export to wikitext, I would suppose that some amount of motivation behind this is probably more that it is a plausibly-deniable reason to remove the threat of Special:Export and migration to another host for Lucy-afflicted wikis.

An entrenchment if you will. Security.

But, yes, it could also serve as an admission of defeat in explanation of wiki markup. Unfortunately there will always be those folks who refuse to even consider the possibility of understanding a source code... I wouldn't say we should care about them, but they exist.