On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:19:46 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
At ETech in San Francisco, I met with Ross Mayfield of Socialtext, and we discussed the idea that there should be a central core set of standard wiki syntax. Ross was quite keen on the concept.
Standard syntax is important for the entire wiki world so that as people become more accustomed to using wikis for all kinds of things, they can feel comfortable on a variety of platforms.
It seems natural to me that as the largest wiki project (and we are probably the wiki engine with the most installations, although I have no actual way of knowing that), we should take a leadership role in this.
I would think that you might be correct. Our position would be improved if we could get an actual (modular) parser running for MediaWiki wikitext. (MediaWikiText?).
Of course, saying that is not even close to helping to make it happen ... it would be nice to be able to live without sleep, wouldn't it?
-- Rich Holton
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