Hi Simon,
I'm the author of the aforementioned Usenet syntax extension. I have not tested it on anything higher than 1.9.x - but I doubt that's the problem.
I created what I call a "Meta Extension" - an extension which is made to be hooked into and built upon by other extensions called ExtendedSyntaxParser:
http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=ExtendedSyntaxParser
The UsenetSyntax extension requires this to be installed first.
Without going into too much detail, the current implementation of ExtendedSyntaxParser, while operating fine by itself, is not amicable to running along side certain other kinds of extensions. It's something that I've wanted to revisit, but haven't had time to do so just yet.
Good luck!
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 5/26/07, Simon Dorfman emaillists@simondorfman.com wrote:
On 5/24/07 10:04 AM, "Ian Smith" ismith@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:
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
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