On 7/4/07, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
- do they conflict (IE: must any given page be *either* one or the
other)
Definitely. You can glance over the spec at http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0. They do provide a "placeholder" syntax that could theoretically be used to allow preexisting MW pages to be edited in WikiCreole without breakage, but only if you're content to not edit any part of the page that their syntax doesn't cover, e.g., anything contained in raw HTML tags. If you are, you could theoretically allow round-tripping.
- are the unambiguous markers that would identify which one a user was
working in?
Not inherently, although of course those could be added in any particular implementation.
- if 1 is true, then why, again, was the decision taken to create a
new markup that conflicts with MWtext, given the installed universe? :-)
The idea is to get all wiki software to use the same markup, not to do anything specifically for MediaWiki. Frankly I have to question whether there's any benefit in this, given that a) probably almost no one will have occasion to use more than one wiki package more often than once in a blue moon; and b) wikimarkup is pretty horrible anyway from a technical perspective, as I've complained about in the past, and if you're going to break reverse compatibility it should be for WYSIWYG. But hey, if people want to spend their time on it, that's their business. Just don't ask me to write the MediaWiki support and I'm fine with it. :P