[OWW-Discuss] WetPaint: nex-gen wiki?

[Bryan Bishop]

On Monday 19 May 2008, "Bill Flanagan" <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> So the mediawiki xml export format is a good thing from your
> perspective. But what about the wiki text format? Is that a good or a
> bad thing for you? You can export the docs but you still have to
> convert to and from wikitext. It's an open format but it can be hard
> to deal with.

Yes, it can be difficult at times. I'm alright with it for most of the 
notes that are dumped on wikis, and even some of the content on 
Wikipedia. However, the projects that I have been associating myself 
with recently, such as the manufacturing database, inherently require 
semantics and syntax that the wiki syntax simply can't provide. At the 
same time, it would be nice to have a wiki directly edit that other 
format, some markup language [I am a recent fan of YAML, an object 
serialization format, a brother of RDF and XML and those families].

- Bryan
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