I had this idea where MediaWiki became more “OO” in that each namespace could be assigned a “handler” mechanism to deal with editing and displaying the content.

So for an “image” namespace, you could have an embedded editor like Inkscape. For a “music” namespace, you could embed Lilypond, or something similar. For “discussion” you could use something like Dave McCabe’s Liquid Threads, or default to regular wikitext if you wanted.

You could then have a “sub-class” of “text” which used a different syntax, and depended on its “handler” to translate into HTML/XML/WTFML depending what we’re using at that point.

My question is not “is it insane?”, because it obviously is, but “is it insane *enough*?”