On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 08:51:06AM -0700, Sean Barrett wrote:
Why should I have to learn yet another -- extremely cryptic and counter-intuitive -- markup language, just so I can volunteer for the privilege of writing an encyclopedia?
In the three years or so that I've now been roaming around WikiWiki sites, this is the first time that I've heard somebody complain about the complexity of the mark-up language. The WikiWiki concept has been around for more than 5 years and that experience suggests that the complexity of the mark-up is rarely a problem and usually the opposite. If you want to write you can do so already with a very minimum set of mark-up which is probably already used on the page you are editing anyway. There is always going to be some "weird mark-up" because linking is done differently from HTML.
-- Jan Hidders