On 5/7/05, Sheldon Rampton sheldon@prwatch.org wrote:
Unfortunately, the WikityWidget only supports the CamelCase link style, and I think Wikipedia's syntax is much more powerful and flexible.
It would be great if someone could develop a WikityWidget-like tool that supports the Wikipedia syntax. I've been using a local installation of MediaWiki on my laptop to keep various notes for my personal use, but it would be easier to have the same functionality available on my dashboard. Also, it would help to further popularize the Wikipedia syntax, which I'd like to see become the basis for a standard wiki syntax even outside of MediaWiki.
No kidding. I find myself taking notes in text editors and separating new sections with =='s and bolding things with apostrophes. I think if someone made a robust and simple personal database creator of this sort -- which one could also store files in and categorically index -- it would be a great boon to us all.
I wonder how hard it would be? The most difficult time would be putting something together that did a good job of blending the coding and viewing aspects of it -- in a personal environment I think a program that made you "submit" a form would be tedious. You could get around it with simple tabs, I suppose, but it would be even more amazing if one could both apply and code in Wiki syntax in realtime. Oh, but to dream...
FF