Is the wiki syntax going anywhere? Did somebody start work to
standardize it?
Is anybody rethinking the difference between [[x]], [[x:y]],
[[:x:y]], [[x|y]], [x:y], [x y], {{x|y}}, {{x|y=z}},
{{x|y=[[z]]}}, and [[x|{{y}}]]?
If we started over today, with today's experience but without
today's legacy, would we make it similar or different?
Would [[image:x]] be implemented as {{image|x}} instead?
Would [
http://url/ text] be replaced by [[
http://url/ | text]]?
Would that make "http:" and "isbn:" parallels to "image:"
and
"category:"?
What about making a scripting language for template definitions,
so you can have conditions, loops and database fetches, almost
like PHP? {{x|y=x}} ::= if ($y) then "see also: $y";
And what about <math></math>?
If I got this part of history right, the [[x]] syntax was
introduced into the UseMod wiki software by Clifford Adams on
request from the Wikipedia community early in 2001. Before that
all wikis used CamelCase to make links, and that option was still
available in Wikipedia for most of 2001.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se