sorry for multiple posting on this, but I do want to point out that key in wiki success is adoption by contributors. Beautiful markup is less important (and probably won't be important in the future at all)
MW is ahead in adoption of all other wiki engines by a manyfold margin. It's markup has even greater lead, since other engines support it too (e.g. ScrewTurn, written in C#). If web2py wiki supported widely recognized markup it would have easily 10-fold gain in the rate of adoption (vs. being based on a lesser known markup). Such wiki would be especially successful if it seamlessly plugged into an existing production MW database, or at least imported it whole. - it is probably not a small project to take on, but I hope someone might take this seriously. As for the linguistic advantages of reST over MW markup - deficiencies of MW, if there are any, could be compensated by better wysiwyg tools with a much better impact. markup only wiki's typically have < 1/100 ratio of writers/readers. This limit is probably there because of the ratio of geeks to normal people. Regular folks won't learn any markup. Evgeny. On May 28, 7:23 pm, Jason Brower <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to see that. > Regards, > Jason > > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 14:00 -0700, mdipierro wrote: > > It is actually very easy to change it (<10 lines of code I guess) and > > the source is public. > > perhaps next verion may have a configuration parameter > > > On May 28, 3:23 pm, Evgeny <[email protected]> wrote: > > > i see. i think it might be a missed opportunity as such application > > > could be very successful > > > and would greatly popularize the platform. > > > > imagine having web2py wiki being able to import MW database > > > automatically. > > > > lot's of people would give it a try as very many are frustrated by the > > > clunkiness of MW design. > > > > even if you have settled on reST, I hope somebody else will consider > > > writing MW successor > > > in web2py. > > > > lastly - IMO - the future of wiki lies in wysiwyg tools, less in > > > improving markup. > > > this is because the key in wiki success is increasing ratio of writers/ > > > readers and you'll get more > > > writers if it's easy and more fun to add content. > > > > Evgeny. > > > > On May 28, 12:07 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > There was a long discussion about this and we settled on reST. > > > > > Massimo > > > > > On May 28, 1:46 pm, Evgeny <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > does web2py wiki support mediawiki markup? > > > > > > would be great - MW is probably most widely used because of the > > > > > popularity of wikipedia. > > > > > > I would gladly migrate to an engine written in python and would > > > > > contribute some code with time. > > > > > > Best, > > > > > Evgeny. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
