[Foundation-l] New parser in the works - please help

THURNER rupert rupert.thurner at wikimedia.ch
Sun Nov 18 08:19:32 UTC 2007


you know of any analysis of wiki-grammars concerning wikicreole and/or
mediawiki text?

On Nov 17, 2007 4:17 PM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:

> David Gerard wrote:
> > On 17/11/2007, Jon Harald Søby wrote:
> >
> >> Err, WikiCreole <http://wikicreole.org/>? It's already been done. But
> >> according to Chunk and Christopher, the MediaWiki developers were not
> >> willing to adapt MediaWiki to WikiCreole....
> >
> >
> > No, that's a different wikitext grammar altogether. This is about
> > implementing a proper grammar that does MediaWiki wikitext. Something
> > we could swap in and the users would almost not notice. Hence the
> > request for odd-but-important bits that would look like quirks to
> > those who don't know the language that needs them.
> >
> >
> > - d.
>
> And WikiCreole is not easier to convert into a grammar than mediawiki's.
>
>
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