Simetrical wrote:
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?
That's not what WikiCreole is trying to do. Creole is attempting to provide a small set of standardized markup that wiki engines can support in addition to their native markup; eight wiki engines, including MediaWiki, have committed to providing Creole support.