Thread:Hackey5/@comment-27013614-20161022110319/@comment-5645428-20161022144703

You can still use Wikitext for formatting, the visible options have just been hidden to discourage overuse. Even more so for the image/video upload options which resulted in more staff maintenance work. Discussions does not have either of these options available.

Internal links are cached on several special pages that we use for monitoring 'official' links in articles. User pages, message walls and the forum aren't considered a part of the encyclopedic body and are deliberately separated as much as possible. Wikia/Fandom is proceeding in this direction as well.