On 9/7/06, Peter <ipbwiki.list(a)gmail.com> wrote:
why not just use
bbcode (=already widespread standard on fora) for your wikicreole standard
and add the items for wiki-specific features which are not available yet in
bbcode?
If you use BBcode, you may as well use HTML. The former is just a
stripped-down version of the latter with a couple of minor tweaks.
The advantages of wikitext are that it's more readable at a glance
(the basic shape of '' is very different from that of [[ or {|, for
instance) and quicker to type (many of the syntaxes rely on doubled or
tripled characters, for instance). The disadvantage, of course, is
that it's hell to parse.
Anyway: why would we want to replace our insane and byzantine markup
system, which tens of thousands of users have grown used to, with
another insane and byzantine markup system that's completely
incompatible with the markup used in probably over ten million pages
on Wikimedia alone, and unfamiliar to our users to boot?
Reverse-incompatible markup changes, *maybe* (that's IMO: in Brion's,
absolutely not, and he's in charge), but only if there's a really good
reason for each and every change . . . which there isn't, here.