Sean Barrett wrote:
'' and ''' are not the worst offenders. There's also various numbers of equal-signs and dashes, colons and so on. All of which accomplishes nothing that the equivalent and more widely used HTML (and thus more widely known) doesn't also.
I don't know all the wiki html equivelants... for that matter I only know very basic html. But what I DO know seems to often be simpler then the wikipedia alternatives.
My very basic diary-formatting html commands (because that was why I learnt to bold, italic etc) include
<B> <I> <BR> <HR>
But the only one of those I use in the pedia is <BR> because I don't know what if any way there is to force the text to skip down to the next line. Intuitively, just hitting Enter ought to do it, but it doesn't. I don't think I've seen the wiki equivelant command. But the others weren't hard to learn.