2012/8/3 Sheppy <[email protected]> > On Friday, August 3, 2012 12:02:10 AM UTC-4, Benoit Jacob wrote: > > > > The #1 problem for many people with the current MDN wiki was that it > didn't > > offer mediawiki-compatible markup editing. It would be great to be able > to > > use right away one's familiarity with mediawiki markup (which is what > most > > people know), and of course being able to copy and paste contents to/from > > mediawikis would be a huge benefit of that. Will the new wiki system > offer > > that? Sorry, I hadn't heard of Kuma and a google search for Kuma Wiki > > didn't return useful results. > > Kuma continues to use HTML as its markup language; this is a > universally-known standard that we think makes sense. Switching back to > MediaWiki markup was not a viable option after years of using standard HTML. > > While I personally don't understand some people's fascination with > MediaWiki syntax (I can't stand it, myself), I know this is a Big Deal to > some people. > > Unfortunately, there was no way to satisfy everyone, and we had to make a > decision. In the end, for both technical and social reasons (more people > know and like HTML than MediaWiki syntax -- indeed, I bet you know HTML > yourself), it just made more sense to use HTML. >
It's really just about convenience to type, for example, <a href="otherpage.html">foo</a> vs [[otherpage|foo]] In other words, while HTML is universally known, it isn't convenience to type text documents in; mediawiki is. > > That said, we know that there are people that prefer MediaWiki and we'll > see if we can find a way to let people use some kind of tool that lets them > paste MediaWiki syntax in and get it automatically converted into HTML. But > that's not going to happen right away, since there are still some more > fundamental site features we need to work on. > > I know this is frustrating to some people that prefer MediaWiki syntax, > and we'll see what we can do. I just can't make any promises, and obviously > anything we do manage to do won't be the same as a raw MediaWiki setup. > Even just minimal basic support for some mediawiki markup would make it more convenient for me to type documents in, than to have to type in HTML or use a WYSIWYG editor. > I'm surprised you hadn't heard of Kuma; we've been talking about it at > length for over a year, including posts to this very mailing list asking > for people to help us test it. This makes me feel sad since we worked so > hard to get the word out. :) > Nah, I don't read mailing lists carefully enough and I don't contribute much to MDN, so this only speaks of my own ignorance. Thanks for taking care of MDN! Benoit > > Eric Shepherd > Developer Documentation Lead > Mozilla > http://www.bitstampede.com/ > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
