About the next wiki software update
I am aware that things on this wiki take time, since it's run by volunteers and the staff have busy lives; this shouldn't be seen as an attempt to rush things. With that being said, I do think it's worth mentioning a few currently unmentioned benefits of a <a href="/wiki/Project:Wiki#Wiki_software_updates" title="Project:Wiki">wiki software update</a>:
Improvements to <syntaxhighlight>[<a href="/index.php?title=CommentStreams:4933214547f8a2fa2b61dc5ae8e24649&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: Improvements to <syntaxhighlight>">edit</a>]
The current version of Extension:SyntaxHighlight doesn't have a dedicated language for wikitext. The best we currently have is trac-wiki, which seems to only highlight two things (CommentStreams breaks the highlighting, so I can't show it here):
<span></span><span class="gh">==</span> Headings <span class="gh">==</span>
<span class="k">[[Wikilinks]]</span>
Newer versions of the extension bring:
lang="mediawiki"- The ability to highlight specific lines of code in yellow (<a href="/wiki/Help:Semantic_MediaWiki#Software" title="Help:Semantic MediaWiki">example where it would be useful</a>)
- Optional line numbers with an optional offset
A working visual editor[<a href="/index.php?title=CommentStreams:4933214547f8a2fa2b61dc5ae8e24649&action=edit§ion=2" title="Edit section: A working visual editor">edit</a>]
See <a href="/wiki/Project_Talk:Wiki#Roadmap:_Updating_MediaWiki_will_fix_the_visual_editor" title="Project Talk:Wiki">Project_Talk:Wiki#Roadmap:_Updating_MediaWiki_will_fix_the_visual_editor</a>.
I know of at least one more thing, but it has slipped my mind. I will update this list as I come across things.