On 12/06/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
All in all, however, this is an excellent proposal with a lot of potential. Transitioning to a new syntax will be painful, but the wiki-users of tomorrow would greatly benefit from the added consistency, not to mention that it will allow us to move towards standardization across wiki engines as well. Before this is finalized, hopefully we can also get some input from non-MediaWiki developers to find out what other features we may want the syntax to support.
This is something I forgot to mention - there is (or was) a bit of discussion towards a standardised WikiMarkup a while ago: * some discussion on MeatBall - http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiMarkupStandard * a mailing list which seems to have died a quiet death, but to which some people might be subscribed who would be interested in Lee's proposal - http://www.freelists.org/archives/wiki/ * one result was the beginnings of a collection of existing markups - http://interwiki.sourceforge.net/wms/summary.sxc
Indeed, it seems there's lots of stuff about that might be worth "tapping into": * looking around, I found a more general "interwiki" list on which people seem to have raised these kinds of issues - http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=interwiki-discuss * ...from which I further blundered into http://www.emacswiki.org/cw/MarkupStandardPlanB
I guess there's an almost unreadable amount of discussion "out there", but what I was really looking for was places Lee could present his ideas to non-MediaWiki folk if/when he feels they're ready.