On Friday, August 3, 2012 12:02:10 AM UTC-4, Benoit Jacob wrote:
> The #1 problem for many people with the current MDN wiki was that it didn't > offer mediawiki-compatible markup editing. It would be great to be able to > use right away one's familiarity with mediawiki markup (which is what most > people know), and of course being able to copy and paste contents to/from > mediawikis would be a huge benefit of that. Will the new wiki system offer > that? Sorry, I hadn't heard of Kuma and a google search for Kuma Wiki > didn't return useful results. Kuma continues to use HTML as its markup language; this is a universally-known standard that we think makes sense. Switching back to MediaWiki markup was not a viable option after years of using standard HTML. While I personally don't understand some people's fascination with MediaWiki syntax (I can't stand it, myself), I know this is a Big Deal to some people. Unfortunately, there was no way to satisfy everyone, and we had to make a decision. In the end, for both technical and social reasons (more people know and like HTML than MediaWiki syntax -- indeed, I bet you know HTML yourself), it just made more sense to use HTML. That said, we know that there are people that prefer MediaWiki and we'll see if we can find a way to let people use some kind of tool that lets them paste MediaWiki syntax in and get it automatically converted into HTML. But that's not going to happen right away, since there are still some more fundamental site features we need to work on. I know this is frustrating to some people that prefer MediaWiki syntax, and we'll see what we can do. I just can't make any promises, and obviously anything we do manage to do won't be the same as a raw MediaWiki setup. I'm surprised you hadn't heard of Kuma; we've been talking about it at length for over a year, including posts to this very mailing list asking for people to help us test it. This makes me feel sad since we worked so hard to get the word out. :) Eric Shepherd Developer Documentation Lead Mozilla http://www.bitstampede.com/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
