On 18/10/17 19:47, Andrew Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I am struggling with the factual inaccuracies - phab is not markdown (they > call it "similar to" > https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/remarkup/), trac is > not markdown (it is inspired by previous wikis > https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/WikiFormatting) but all of this is > irrelevant to the point. > > MarkDown is a common format that many have extended. Case in point - we > were working on some documentation last night and one of the group did not > want to put it in the wiki yet so they uploaded it to github temporarily. > And you know what? Their web engine automatically formatted it correctly - > I then loaded it into dokuwiki with markdown enabled and the same thing - > the content, heirarchy, markup and syntax highlighting all just worked. > Whether we like it or not GitHub has changed the way that people think > about social coding and their adoption of Markdown has had a big impact on > people using it as a standard (there are book authoring systems and > presentation apps using it as the main format). > > What I was proposing is to use MarkDown instead of Dokuwiki syntax (due to > the benefits already listed) and this has no bearing on the choice of > dokuwiki or the functionality - it is merely the syntax used. Online > editing works just as well, page includes also work through "frontmatter" > much as before. Your assertion that using any other format makes it > uneditable seems completely untrue - what is causing your concern here? > > Is it possible that in this discussion we have confused the word dokuwiki > as a format and dokuwiki as a product? >
Whenever i've manually updated our wiki pages (or any wiki pages) I always reference the provided help to use the correct syntax, so how would use ensure that anyone editing the documentation via the wiki (which is why its a wiki in the first place) will use markdown formatting rather then wiki formatting? -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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