HTML tags or wiki text?

HTML tags or wiki text?

Here and there you see that <strong>$1</strong> is used instead of '''$1'''. I now know that they do the same, but is there a reason that this is not consistent? If there isn't, could a bot standardize them so that beginners and non-programmers are not confused and spend time changing this? At least for the MediaWiki projects?

Jopparn (talk)11:11, 7 February 2014

This is a recent change, gerrit:99195. There was a brief related discussion somewhere but I don't know if the rationale for the change has been explained anywhere. Siebrand also run bots for the translations.

Nemo (talk)11:59, 7 February 2014