On 9/7/06, Peter ipbwiki.list@gmail.com wrote:
why not just use bbcode (=already widespread standard on fora) for your wikicreole standard and add the items for wiki-specific features which are not available yet in bbcode?
If you use BBcode, you may as well use HTML. The former is just a stripped-down version of the latter with a couple of minor tweaks. The advantages of wikitext are that it's more readable at a glance (the basic shape of '' is very different from that of [[ or {|, for instance) and quicker to type (many of the syntaxes rely on doubled or tripled characters, for instance). The disadvantage, of course, is that it's hell to parse.
Anyway: why would we want to replace our insane and byzantine markup system, which tens of thousands of users have grown used to, with another insane and byzantine markup system that's completely incompatible with the markup used in probably over ten million pages on Wikimedia alone, and unfamiliar to our users to boot? Reverse-incompatible markup changes, *maybe* (that's IMO: in Brion's, absolutely not, and he's in charge), but only if there's a really good reason for each and every change . . . which there isn't, here.