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GitWiki: GUI editing and Wikipedia-like syntax incompatibile

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 29, 2007, 23:37 UTC
Message-ID
<200708300137.35000.jnareb@gmail.com>

Pasky, could you please either turn off GUI editing on GitWiki, or make it compatibile with Wikipedia-like syntax.

With Wikipedia-like syntax we denote links by [[link]], and macros by {{macro}} (for example {{BR}} and {{TableOfContents(2)}}). In default MoinMoin syntax _macros_ use [[macro]] syntax, and you use ["link"] to force non-CamelCase link.

Editing page which uses Wikipedia-like syntax with GUI editing makes the following changes:

  [[CamelCase]]         -->   CamelCase
  [[Link]]              -->   ["Link"]

(this is not much trouble, beside fact that everyone is used to Wikipedia syntax)

  [[Link|the link]]     -->   [:Link:the link]
(much less people understand MoinMoin notation that Wikipedia pipe link)
  {{Macro}}             -->   [[Macro]]

(which causes macro to be displayed as link to nowehere and DO NOT WORK!!!)

  Camel``Case           -->   Camel{{{}}}Case
(a bit harder to read).
To everybody else: please avoid GUI editing till it is corrected. TIA.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. Jakub NarebskiAug 29, 2007

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

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