On 30/07/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
It's probably based on my saying I might try to implement an experimental mode for MediaWiki when I had time, which I have never had time to do.
Yeah, I came across some page about this on their web site, as it happens, just after the initial post.
IMHO this creole thing is a dead-end, just as the attempts to do WYSIWYG editing by transcoding back and forth between wikitext and HTML. The long-term future of wiki text handling is most likely going to be WYSIWYG based on an HTML/XML backend.
It's a nice idea, but...well, so is Communism, and how well did that work out for Russia? :)
Rob Church