[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikis and uniformity

[Magnus Manske]

sgilbert at nbnet.nb.ca wrote:
> I believe Nupedia (Wikipedia's parent encyclopedia project) used 
> XML markup. That project had a division of labour between writers 
> and editors: the former simply wrote the articles, while the latter did 
> all the fancy markup.

That's how it was supposed to be; and it was not really XML, just 
HTMLwith some proprietary tags (I'd know; I rewrote that part of the 
software;-)
But, we even had SVG support back those days! :-)

Magnus