On 5/24/07 10:04 AM, "Ian Smith" <ismith(a)good.com> wrote:
There's an extension which implements Usenet style
syntax (ie. *bold*
and _italics_) in MediaWiki -- and it's really simple. I think that
this will at least give you an idea of how such an extension can be
hooked into MW; in fact, you could probably use the extension as a base,
cut out the Usenet formatting code, and paste in the Markdown code:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UsenetSyntax
Thanks for your reply, Ian. I like this approach. My first step in trying
to implement this was to install UsenetSyntax and make sure it works. Alas,
I installed UsenetSyntax and found that it doesn't work with the current
version (1.10.0) of MediaWiki. Here's my sandbox test page:
http://simondorfman.com/wiki/Sandbox:test
Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Do you have UsenetSyntax working on a
1.10.0 install?
Thanks,
Simon
P.S.-I started a page to help with the writing of this extension and
eventually act as the release page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MarkdownSyntax