David Gerard wrote:
On 04/07/07, Chuck Smith chuckssmith@gmail.com wrote:
After a year of diligent effort, a group of nearly 50 dedicated users and developers are proud to release WikiCreole 1.0. Creole is designed to be a common wiki markup language which augments existing markup to enable wiki users to transfer content seamlessly across wikis, a boon to novice and expert users alike.
How well does it do the round-trip from MediaWiki syntax and back again?
WikiCreole is a feature-reduced markup. Features which may help with such conversion, such as the proposed extension/plug-in syntax, have not been included in WikiCreole 1.0. Also, WikiCreole does not reference HTML or CSS, unlike MediaWiki which allows a broad range of filtered HTML attributes, including a minimally filtered style attribute. WikiCreole can be converted to HTML, but the converse most certainly isn't true.
So in a nutshell, not well at all.
The most plausible proposal is to allow WikiCreole in new MediaWiki installations. An alternative parser could be provided, and the user could select it on install. We could use the traditional parser for processing internationalised UI text, some of which is wikitext.
-- Tim Starling