Stephen Gilbert <sgilbert(a)nbnet.nb.ca> writes:
I don't think we want to force every contributor
to learn SGML or XML.
Our list of Wikipedians would shrink rather dramatically.
You cannot prove that claim. HTML is SGML and there are quite some HTML
writers. Using SGML is easy. They can separate paragraphs by <p> and
they are done. More advanced users can use more tags.
_Many_ editors isn't a good thing per se; we should rather go for _good_
editors.
He orginally wrote it to export wiki documents, but he
found it also
was much easier to write new documents in wiki syntax and convert them
rather than starting with straight DocBook.
It isn't easier, but he is lazy ;) And he obviously enjoys using a
cryptic markup language. Cf. my User page. Aditionally, you will never
know whether wikipedia software accepts your HTML elements or not.
Lately we discussed fragment idetifiers and I was told they are
supported; what must I write to make then work?
[[Garten#Geschichte]] does not seem to do the trick to point to
something like <a name="Geschichte"> in the article "Garten".
If someone is seriously interested in uniformity, he should vote for
SGML/XML; ignoring using a proper markup language is just a waste of
human resources: without a DTD we are force to edit or adjust articles
again and again.
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