Q: What's this supposed to do?
---- test
A1. After some convincing from the wiki community, we changed the hyphen for unordered lists to an asterisk, so this will no longer be a problem.
Cool.
However, now asterisks have two behaviours (bolding & unordered lists). Just to clarify what I think the spec is saying about the precedence of these, and what happens when they intersect in weird and unbalanced ways, this test input: ============= A ** test** to ** see **what ** bold * and lists does ** *** ** ** test ** end ** ============= Should render as: "<p>A <strong> test</strong> to ** see</p><ul><li><ul><li>what ** bold *</li></ul></li></ul><p>and lists does <strong> </strong>* **</p><ul><li><ul><li>test <strong> end </strong></li></ul></li></ul>".
Is that correct? I don't personally mind what the correct answer is, but I do want to make sure that there is only one unambiguous and correct answer, and that it can be logically determined from the specs.
Certainly on the English Wikipedia, we have article names that look like URLs. E.g. these are all valid wiki articles
or redirects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://www.google.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://www.ebay.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://amazon.com And there's also these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ftp:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mailto:
There are only redirects in Wikipedia that start with http:// or ftp://, so you should not be linking to those pages anyway. That's very bad style.
It perhaps debatable whether linking to redirects is bad style, but it's certainly true that being able to link to redirects is very useful. If you don't believe me, just try turning it off on the Wikipedia, and listen to the howls of protest. :-)
However, there is exactly one link to the [[Http://www.google.com/]] redirect, and I don't think any to the others, so it's not a big deal if this changes.
Danger, Will Robinson! Syntax conflicts ahead.
Whoa! MediaWiki will certainly implement Creole with placeholders and a separate button for editing Creole, so syntax conflicts are not important.
Cool, two different edit modes (as opposed to one that's trying to support both native + Creole). Got it.
I hope this helps clarify things.
It does - Thank you.
All the best, Nick.