On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 04:45:37PM -0600, Derek Moore did utter:
formatting capabilities in article submission to
laypeople. A syntax
similar to
the variants used in wikies, but much more consistent, much more coherent,
and
I couldn't agree more - I've always felt that wiki markup should
resemble well organised (and maybe slightly quirky) .txt "nomarkup"
formatting.
I started work on this because I'm doing a lot of
development on a second
generation community-developed/organized open publishing content management
system for Independent Media Centers. The particular codebase I'm working
on is
going to be a sort of Wikipedia + scoop + multimedia galleries/archives +
weblogs + newswire + Kronolith + etc.--all tightly rolled into one nice,
easy-to-use, and consistent package.
I'll be VERY interested to see this... (and here we get to the bulk of
my reply) ...since I've been having vague plans of creating (that would
be frankencreating, to anyone who has seen my software creations)
something along those lines you describe for the next generation of my
own personal website. (which is currently a mixture of a home-made CMS
hacked onto a pre-existing bloggish system (SIPS), gallery, and UseMod
wiki).
As part of my plans for this, I've been designing my own "nomarkup"
wiki-style markup for it's use. Currently I've only really got the basic
wiki markup stuff done, and nothing for more advanced handling of CMS
and multimedia handling. Nevertheless, I think we share similar goals.
So, I invite you to look over my markup ramblings on my own wiki:
http://www.nut.house.cx/cgi-bin/nemwiki.pl?NEWS/TextFormatting
(this is a UseMod wiki btw, so it should be fairly familiar to wikipedia
folks if anyone wants to edit in their own comments. :)
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