I think somewhere on meta someone suggested including tables in the same way that we include images. I think this is quite a good idea as some articles with tables in look like a complete mess in edit windows, just having [[table:some table]] or something might make them look a little cleaner. I just thought I should re-mention this while there was discussion of syntax. I don't know the ins and outs of designing this kind of thing so maybe there's many a good reason for not doing this but I just thought I should mention it.
Cheers,
Andrew (Ams80) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Daniel Crocker" lee@piclab.com To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 10:31 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki syntax
(Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de):
However, please keep in mind that we have hundreds of megabytes of existing wikitext, and converting this to anything else would be a major PITA. It may be doable but is probably nothing the developers want to spend much time on.
I consider that a minor issue. Ours is the largest wiki on the planet, and converting every page in the database would take a few hours at most, and I consider that a small price for the potential gains of a clean, usable syntax.
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