Schedule for adding WikiText editor & renderer

[c4lliope]

Hello all; I'm eager to begin using Wiki.js for a club's shared knowledge base - as I'm sure are many groups who have been using MediaWiki for so many years.

Back in #946 @NGPixel guessed this could be released in 2019/2020. Three years on, and seems like no sign of progress. The webpage still says "Coming Soon", though nearly no discussions have been going on here regarding this feature.

Enabling wikitext should be a serious and pressing goal, because there are no good Wiki options these days which support both wikitext and Markdown - by handling both of these, WikiJS can help people gradually upgrade old wikis to the markdown standard. Many people will be able to keep hold of their legacy pages, and WikiJS can gain a large audience of users who need this kind of upgrade path.

To begin making progress here, please consider:

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers
• (PHP, used by MediaWiki) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid
• (JS) https://github.com/spencermountain/wtf_wikipedia
• (JS) https://github.com/kanasimi/wikiapi
• (Python) https://github.com/TrueBrain/wikitexthtml
• (Rust) https://docs.rs/parse_wiki_text/
• Decide on rendering...
  • Client-side (using a JS lib)
  • Server-side (JS, PHP, Python, Rust)
  • Webassembly-side (PHP, Python, Rust)

[c4lliope]

Anyone else in a similar scenario as I am?
Based on a day of research across dozens of wiki engines, the only wikitext -> markdown gradual upgrade path I can recommend is to use Gollum.

While Gollum supposedly can manage WikiText through a library called wikicloth,
this library hasn't been checked against Ruby 3: https://travis-ci.org/github/nricciar/wikicloth
I am seeing errors, so I'll likely need to run a scary-old Ruby 2.7 while the upgrade is happening.
Once all of the pages are changed to Markdown, our group would likely go to WikiJS anyway - this is merely a big hurdle.

[c4lliope]

Yeah unable to recommend Gollum, the mediawiki parser is super rough even when you do have it running on 2.7.