Agreed that this would be very useful and also that it needs to be done
on a per wiki format basis.

I think, however, that this is something the format creators should be
encouraged to register, or at least suggest a convention for.

James

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:59:10 -0800, "Walter Underwood"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> --On March 6, 2006 3:59:39 PM +0100 Henry Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Silly question probably, but is there a wiki mime type?
> > I was thinking of "text/wiki" or "text/x-wiki" or something.
> > 
> > I want people to be able to edit their blogs in wiki format in BlogEd  and 
> > be able
> > to distinguish when they do that from when they enter  plain text, html or 
> > xhtml.
> > Perhaps this is also useful for the protocol.
> 
> It would be really useful, especially for feeds that archive the content
> of a blog. It would be best to use the official names of the formats,
> like
> "text/markdown" or "text/textile". The wikis and blogs that I use can be
> configured to accept different formats, so "text/wiki" doesn't work.
> 
> wunder
> --
> Walter Underwood
> Principal Software Architect, Autonomy
> 
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