Our current Flexifilter module for FWN has several drawbacks:
* It only handles a few simple cases (headings, emphasis, bold, links)
* It's very difficult to customize thanks to an unpleasant interface
* It also requires us to use the Footnotes module just so we can
handle <ref> in wiki text
Tonight, because I needed it for another project, I figured out how to
use the mediawiki_api module, and it works perfectly against the
Fedora wiki. It allows the writer to use basically any markup our wiki
allows, and converts the text to HTML internally. Whenever the user
previews or saves changes, it calls the MediaWiki API to convert the
text.
I'm putting in a ticket so we can move to this module, because it
eliminates some custom work we otherwise have to maintain (the
flexifilter) and extend upon request.
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Paul