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

[Marc Riddell]

on 1/19/11 6:51 PM, Steven Walling at steven.walling at gmail.com wrote:

> 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.

* http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hacky

* http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/h.htm

M

> 
> 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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