Comment 9 for bug 495898

Just for you to know:

https://github.com/Xunius/markdown2zim

"Convert a text file written in markdown or zim wiki to the other."

About the discussion: for me is ok to use current Zim syntax as the default one for the reasons you said, as I think that could be nice to let users to choose Markdown from a plugin as said tlvince. It could facilitate Markdown users to start using Zim.