# GitWiki: GUI editing and Wikipedia-like syntax incompatibile

1 messages from 2007-08-29 to 2007-08-29. Participants: Jakub Narebski.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9696

## Jakub Narebski, 2007-08-29 23:37

Subject: GitWiki: GUI editing and Wikipedia-like syntax incompatibile
Message-ID: <200708300137.35000.jnareb@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200708300137.35000.jnareb%40gmail.com

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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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