User blog comment:Ducksoup/The Future of Infoboxes on Wikia/@comment-1398253-20150822222408/@comment-24473195-20150823120438

Many wikis were built with barely any framework?

That is normal.

People often complain that wikia makes decision and forces wikias to adopt it. This time they iterated with an early alpha and beta design eliciting feedback from several communities and making changes. So people are looking at an incomplete product and treating it as if it must be perfect.

So the converter is a joke to these wiki's, and there are likely many wiki's that will be in the same zone.

My point is that people are reading too much into the code created by the markup generator. It is not meant to be a perfect conversion it is only meant as a starting point. So constructive feedback is useful.

For example, one simple solution is either to use a to replace or   or alternatively have the script that converts it automatically change or sanitize (escape) the html. The easiest way is probably to put all that stuff inside a template.