Why not add *this* and _this_ to the "Extended MediaWiki" markup, then just
make vanilla MW syntax one of the many light-markups supported? So when you
author an article, you can pick from MediaWiki, Extended MediaWiki,
Markdown, Textile, APT, Usenet, Plain Text, XHTML, etc?
I'm only partly kidding. It makes sense for Wikipedia to have exactly one
supported syntax, but for other wikis, having the flexibility to pick a
markup would alleviate these kinds of disputes. Perhaps putting in enough
hooks to allow extension devs to make their own parser grammars? (Not sure
if there are enough hooks for this now btw).
More seriously though, I think adding any new magic to the MediaWiki parser
is just fueling the fire surrounding the parsability of the syntax - which I
am against. Also, regarding parsability, has anyone attempted to write
Doxia[1] plugins for MW syntax? I'm considering giving it a whirl if there
isn't any prior art.
[1]
http://maven.apache.org/doxia/
On 2/12/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 08:25:54PM +0000, Rob Church wrote:
On 12/02/07, Simetrical
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Only a vanishingly tiny percentage of our target
audience (which is
all of humanity) is familiar with Usenet-style emphasis conventions.
It's bloody criminal, isn't it?
I know you're being at least 50% snarky there, Rob, but I a) think that
it is, in fact, criminal, and b) still don't think that penalizing the
people who do is a good idea, absent overwhelming other evidence.
And let's just note here that *Microsoft Word does this translation in
realtime during input*, assuming you don't turn it off.
So, clearly, it's not *that* abstruse.
Cheers,
-- jra
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