Philosophy

More important, IMHO, than extending the syntax is being part of the WikiRFC for a common WikiSyntax. Is DokuWiki involved in this? – 2004.10.05.

I'm member on mailinglist of the WikiMarkupStandardWorkingGroup. However the group is currently far from having a final standard. When such a standard is passed I will see if and how to implement it. — Andi

When a page is created using a ', the result is an underscore. For instance, Paul's Page will be, paul_s_page. I think it better if it were pauls_page.

Even better is to use -hypens instead of _underscores. The reason can be found on this page. You can find more discussion on this by googling it.

This is for an honest discussion, and philosophy seems the appropriate place to locate it.

I really can't understand why Wiki's store their content files in native Wiki (authoring) format. Wouldn't HTML be better?

• If the web server was down and I had direct access to the files I would find it easier to view the files with a web browser, in which case the links between pages would still work.
• Serving the pages would be more efficient. Admittedly a second parser would be need to convert HTML back to Wiki format for editing (although, more recently changed pages could be cached).
• It would provide a widely recognised common format for transfering content between Wiki engines.

I can appreciate that the simplest Wiki engines would be easiest to implement without a Wiki (HTML) → Wiki (native) parser, but surely for the more sophisticated engines such a converter wouldn't be onerous. I would think the HTML involved would be a restricted subset of HTML, such that the page could be simply included by the engine for display. Meaning the parser would not need to take into account all the possibilities of HTML but only those likely to be generated by authoring in Wiki format.

- chris