[Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing

[Jan.Hidders]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 08:51:06AM -0700, Sean Barrett wrote:
> Why should I have to learn yet another -- extremely cryptic and
> counter-intuitive -- markup language, just so I can volunteer for the
> privilege of writing an encyclopedia?

In the three years or so that I've now been roaming around WikiWiki sites,
this is the first time that I've heard somebody complain about the
complexity of the mark-up language. The WikiWiki concept has been around for
more than 5 years and that experience suggests that the complexity of the
mark-up is rarely a problem and usually the opposite. If you want to write
you can do so already with a very minimum set of mark-up which is probably
already used on the page you are editing anyway. There is always going to be
some "weird mark-up" because linking is done differently from HTML.

-- Jan Hidders