Wikitext syntax

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See also Wiki syntax, Wiki markup syntax, Wikitext standard.

(I'm just tipping some links onto this page for -- I will clean it up to some sort of coherence later -- Tarquin 16:45, 30 Aug 2003 (UTC) )

The most pressing issue seems to be a standard that can be published and supported by other wikis, like MoinMoinWiki and tikiwiki, which are very popular, and more extensible than MediaWiki. (The most authoritative page for this standard is probably Meatball:WikiMarkupStandard.) Text import/export has to be one of our priorities, given the objectives of this project to become a central GNU FDL repository of trusted text for use all over the place.

[edit] The syntax

• Wikipedia lexer
• Wikipedia Text Syntax (URL currently broken for LDC's wiki)

• Markup extensions
  • Music markup -- inline music notation? (proposed)
  • Wikipediatlas -- inline map generation (proposed) - with spacetime DTD
    • Geospatial references
    • New suggestion: Complex Historical references
  • Wikitax -- a radically altered wiki markup (proposed) - with ideology (unlikely to be implemented...)
• Image pages - better way to caption & position them. also applied to tables
• Intermediate solution for interlanguage links
• underlying Wikipedia DTD

[edit] Parsing it

Future plans:

• Wikipedia lexer
• Wikitext standard