We’re putting this together, and I set it to use the Usemod Markup Extension, because:
That said, I see that CW is going a different way, and I’m curious about – (Alex,) – what extension did you install for the current CW format, and, why did you choose it?
This isn’t Creole, right?
Alex Schroeder: That’s right. I’ve decided for myself that Markdown was more useful for me. I do a bit of writing in Markdown. All those README files for web frontends of source repositories default to Markdown (and yes, I had a README.creole on GitHub for the longest time, but eventually I figured that simply using README.md like everybody else was going to be simpler. And then I switched my own blog from the Creole rules to Markdown rules (and this is not the first time: I had started out using UseMod rules).
So in short, the Oddmuse Markdown Rules Extension.
Because I was using Markdown elsewhere. Because nobody else that was new to wikis ever got WikiCreole right. It was either the super simple markup we saw on Google+ (asterisk for bold, underscore for italic), or nothing at all: bare URLs get linked and that’s it. So there was a benefit for me personally, a supposed benefit for other people with my sort of background, and as far as I could tell, no drawback for newbies.
Now, Oddmuse facilitates such a switch in that pages that aren’t edited keep their HTML cache, so you can convert pages slowly, as you run into them, or you can try to do a bunch of global search-and-replace operations (like I did on my blog). Back when I made the change, I figured nobody else was using Community Wiki anyway, so I might as well “be bold”. 😅
For a brief moment I also thought that I might be using Community Wiki as a test-bed for my new Gemini wiki engine, Phoebe. But then I created TransjovianCouncil for it and so there is no actual need for GemText (even though you can still reach this site on port 1965).
I you look at the installed modules, you can find other stuff I installed. And there’s the config file as well, which ought to be here: config config-en config-de config-fr.
I see. Markdown. Yes, it’s all over the ecology – I hear that.
Alex Schroeder: Now that I look at it again, I think we’re not actually using Markdown! At last I don’t see it installed.
GeminiRule
)No Markdown after all. It’s just wishful thinking, haha. Or maybe proving that most people use a very minimal set.
I just want to share my excitement here for a moment --
I know StarCommunity isn’t y’alls thing and that’s fine --
But I want to say:
I’m really excited because --
Core StarCommunity people are getting really enthused about wiki, and about the particular way of approaching wiki and TheoryBuilding and such that we’ve been talking about.
It’s just really amazing for me to see that this body of ideas that we built up over the course of about 10 years here on CommunityWiki, actually coming to be something in a real-life live-in community, and playing such an important role, and for the very reasons that we identified here.
It’s one of those “coming full circle” type things, and it makes me feel really good about everything that we did here.
Jack, Gavin, Ben, Rea, all people you don’t know, I know, but really important people to me --
They’re getting really excited about the potentials and possibilities, and they’re looking at it like: “Whoah, I never thought of looking at it that way before.”
They’re particularly intrigued by:
I just wanted to share something of my own excitement, and I think also my appreciation of what has happened on this wiki.
I didn’t want it to be like – “CommunityWiki is something that happened in the past, but it’s just, lost information, lost time.” No, I’m excited to see this “living on.” And maybe this connects with WikiRevival. If not in a bigger picture (the picture of computing (big) or CommunityWiki (small), definitely for myself.
It’s great to hear that there are communities for which wiki work! Also, I like that particular wiki. It feels alive.