On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:52:22PM -0600, Jim Wilson wrote:
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).
This would only work if MW transitioned its internal storage to
something standardized and parseable, like XML... I *think*.
Cheers,
-- jr 'not that there's anything wrong with that... :-)' a
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