But again, that's the wrong tool for the job so of course it's not going to be well suited. When it's that obvious of a wrong tool saying it's terrible is still kind of silly. It's like saying hammers are terrible at screwing things or cars make terrible trampolines.
> Wikipedia's markup is just terrible for trying to do any sort of scraping or analysis.
I'd like to emphasize the "for trying to do any sort of scraping or analysis." Should we instead lie and say it's wonderful for scraping?
It's not an insult, it's the truth. If you want to build an app that automatically parses Wikipedia, it will not be easy.