Delirium delirium@hackish.org writes:
Unless we want to introduce three separate forms of wikimarkup for these three cases, <i> is at least less wrong than the other options...
It's time to get rid of the wiki-markup - let's go for XML driven by a nice schema (DTD or RNG). The wiki-markup as used in the WP has changed to an expert system ("Geheimwissenschaft"). It is short, but cryptic. It is ambiguous and make it difficult to develop a consistent look and feel.
Without semantic markup articles are just TLOBs (text large objects). Advanced querying is hardly possible. With proper markup you can access the "history" of all cities easily.
If we do not switch now, our developers will re-invent XML and related technologies step-by-step.