chuckssmith at gmail
Aug 29, 2006, 8:02 AM
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WikiCreole - a common wiki markup
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During WikiSym, we (Christoph Sauer, Janne Jalkanen, Ward Cunningham
and I) held a five-hour workshop where we agreed on a new common wiki
markup based on looking at the markup of popular wikis as well as
deciding what would be intuitive. Our conclusion was not to replace
wiki markup, but rather to provide an alternative way to edit wikis,
so that visitors of a new wiki engine will feel more welcome. Several
wiki engines have agreed to jump on board (including MediaWiki and the
Ward's original WikiWikiWeb).
Although we do not say how to implement Creole for a particular wiki
engine, two possibilities would be to have a separate edit button,
using placeholders to hide advanced native wiki markup from users or
if possible to have a mixed edit where users could use Creole as well
as native markup which would then be translated to the native markup.
We have set up the WikiCreole wiki (www.wikicreole.org) to continue
the discussion and work. We would be interested to know what you
think and to hear from you if you would also like to add Creole
support to your wiki.
Starting points:
- http://www.wikicreole.org/
- http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/AllMarkup
- http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Engines
Best wishes,
Chuck
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