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