The
wikistyle format is the native editing syntax for content in
mediawiki and
getwiki. All of the
mediawiki-based services manage all of their content in wikistyle.
For
Living Platform purposes the significance of wikistyle is that it is used to express the
GFDL corpus namespace and indeed the whole
GFDL corpus. The
list of policy terms will ALWAYS AND ONLY BE EXPRESSED AS TERMS ALREADY DEFINED IN THE GFDL CORPUS which is not much of a constraint, as there are over FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND OF THESE in English alone.
Wikistyle is not supported by
tikiwiki which is the main reason to dump it - see
fatal tikiwiki flaws - ASAP.