Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25150955-20160909010405/@comment-1595427-20170105071229

Utkar22 wrote: If there is a security hole in forums, there can be one in discussions too. True, but it is easier to build security from the bottom up than add it afterwards.Mediawiki was built on anyone can edit, page based and desktop based. Changing that takes a lot of effort. Which means easier to create something not based on  Mediawiki then add features to that.

But I do hope they can find a way to allow wiki markup in Discussions. Maybe using iframes and namespace only a Fandom bot can edit for other users or built on the shared templates technology