It occurs to me that there is going to be an awful lot of reworking if we
ever do go to an XML format Wikipedia (and this definitely needs discussion
at some point soon). I would have said that HTML is a more generally
accepted standard and that Wiki formatting is a highly localised phenomenon.
You can do a lot more with HTML format than you ever can with Wiki
formatting.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Gilbert" <canuck_in_korea2002(a)yahoo.com>
To: <wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing
--- "Jan.Hidders" <hidders(a)uia.ua.ac.be> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 04:24:17PM +0100,
tarquin
wrote:
I would hesitate before deprecating <b> and <i> in
wiki markup, but I
change those to the equivalent ' whenever I
see
them, and I don't think
they should be encouraged.
I would not hesitate here. If you have two notations
for the same thing
people who want to write have to know them both
because they are going to
encounter them and therefore have to know what they
mean and if they are the
same or not. Having one notation is simpler for
everybody.
-- Jan Hidders
What if you want a bold italic font? I know of only
three ways to do it on Wikipedia, and none are pure
wiki syntax: <b>''Bold italic''</b>,
<i>'''Bold
italic'''</i>, or <b><i>Bold italic</i></b>.
Stephen G.
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