Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
There's another way:
- Agree on a XML standard for wikis
- Each wiki system writes a wiki-to-XML and XML-to-wiki function
I think this doesn't resolve the main issue, which is end-user joy. What I hope to do is encourage at least a strong subset of syntax which is used universally, so that I can go to any wiki and do some basic normal things and have the result be what I want.
One of the recent tendencies in Wikimedia projects that strikes me as hostile to the end user has been the proliferation of the use of templates, often with multiple levels of nested brackets.
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