On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
Wiki markup, on the other hand, is primarily designed to be easy to create and easy to read. Concerns such as the ease of parser design and avoiding ambiguity are decidedly secondary.
I agree with this completely. Now, obviously we should be very careful about falling into any "reinventing the wheel" syndromes, or any "not invented here" syndromes, etc. But wiki markup serves a very different function from HTML or XML.
To me, wiki markup is just another editor in front of the real content. I expect to see a wysiwyg editor one day as well, and I expect to see the contents stored in XML for ease of access and because databases will offer us more features that way.