[WikiEN-l] Productwiki - Amazon not using "hacky text decoration language"

[Steven Walling]

I will henceforth be referring to all wiki markup as "text decoration
language". Also, funny that Wikipedia volunteers know that "hacky" isn't a
word but Amazon's employees apparently don't.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:35 PM, wiki <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=43568011
>
> "How does it compare to wikipedia?
>
> Like wikipedia, we support group editing, version history, reverts,
> notifications on changes, and diffs.
> Unlike wikipedia, we will use the rich text editor for editing instead of
> using a hacky text decoration language."
>
>
> Well, I daresay many of us prefer our "hacky text decoration language ".
> But
> interesting,
>
>
> Scott
>
>
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