[Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing

[Steve Callaway]

It occurs to me that there is going to be an awful lot of reworking if we
ever do go to an XML format Wikipedia (and this definitely needs discussion
at some point soon). I would have said that HTML is a more generally
accepted standard and that Wiki formatting is a highly localised phenomenon.
You can do a lot more with HTML format than you ever can with Wiki
formatting.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Gilbert" <canuck_in_korea2002 at yahoo.com>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing


>
> --- "Jan.Hidders" <hidders at uia.ua.ac.be> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 04:24:17PM +0100, tarquin
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I would hesitate before deprecating <b> and <i> in
> > wiki markup, but I
> > > change those to the equivalent ' whenever I see
> > them, and I don't think
> > > they should be encouraged.
> >
> > I would not hesitate here. If you have two notations
> > for the same thing
> > people who want to write have to know them both
> > because they are going to
> > encounter them and therefore have to know what they
> > mean and if they are the
> > same or not. Having one notation is simpler for
> > everybody.
> >
> > -- Jan Hidders
>
> What if you want a bold italic font? I know of only
> three ways to do it on Wikipedia, and none are pure
> wiki syntax: <b>''Bold italic''</b>, <i>'''Bold
> italic'''</i>, or <b><i>Bold italic</i></b>.
>
> Stephen G.
>
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