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After a year of working together with the wiki community, we are now releasing WikiCreole 1.0. Creole is a common wiki markup language to be used across different wikis. It's not replacing existing markup but instead enabling wiki users to transfer content seamlessly across wikis, and for novice users to contribute more easily. The problem is that every wiki software has its own markup which makes it difficult to teach a generic wiki markup, as well as for people to use more than one wiki engine regularly. This also creates a foundation for wiki software to be developed which can work across multiple wiki engines.
After a year of working together with the wiki community, we are now releasing WikiCreole 1.0. Creole does not replace existing markup, but instead enables wiki users to transfer content seamlessly across wikis, and for novice users to contribute more easily. In proposing a subset of markup elements that is as non-controversial as possible, this markup has evolved from all existing wiki markup, hence the name Creole: a stable language that originated from a non-trivial combination of two or more languages. The problem is that every wiki software has its own markup which makes it difficult to teach a generic wiki markup, as well as for people to use more than one wiki engine regularly. Having a common wiki markup also lays the foundation for
wiki software to be developed to work across multiple wiki engines.
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( ... more about Creole and the process here ... )
Ward Cunningham, the founder of wikis, coined the term Creole, just like he coined the name wiki from the Hawaiian WikiWiki. He suggested this name at Wikimania 2006 in Boston, the international Wikipedia conference, where we presented our first empirical analysis on existing markup variants. Cunningham’s and our idea was to create a common markup that was not standardization of an arbitrary existing markup, but rather a new markup language that was created out of the common elements of all existing engines out there.
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At the Wikimania 2006 in Boston, Christoph Sauer and Chuck Smith met with Ward Cunningham to think up the revolutionary idea of not replacing current wiki markup, but rather to create a markup to be used alongside existing "native" wiki engine code. During the WikiSym 2006 in Denmark, i3G (Interdisciplinary Institute for Intelligent Business Processes) paved the way to developing a common wiki markup by bringing together key players in the community to meet and move toward a common wiki markup to help wikis across the board. i3G is trying to overcome the barriers between computer science, engineering and business, through our selection of content and personnel. They are also developing customized concepts for small and medium-sized companies to help optimize operational workflow and its representation for IT systems.
Under this premise, we extensively analyzed existing wiki markup, and came up with a subset of elements that would be as non-controversial as possible. We then invited practitioners and wiki developers to come together in a workshop at WikiSym 2006 in Denmark to introduce the idea of Creole and discuss how to proceed. There we went through different markup elements which we wanted to unify and added them to a wiki set up for this purpose. Afterwards, we had enough data to suggest a first version of the Creole spec, version 0.1. Many participants of the workshop agreed to implement Creole into their software.
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After the workshop, we started by setting up a wiki with the results from the workshop. We used this wiki to give people that did not attend the Wiki Markup Standard Workshop the opportunity to discuss decisions made, and to be able to make their own proposals. We introduced a workflow that incrementally discussed and introduced those proposals into the spec. Discussion pages were used to talk about each topic. At the end of an iteration (4-8 weeks), we added a new version number to the spec.
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I am at a bit of a block on how to continue this at the moment. Everyone should feel free to add what you have in mind and I'll take another shot at it tomorrow. Perhaps the last paragraph sounds a bit too marketing... --[[Chuck Smith]]
Our decisions were consensus-driven meaning we tried not to vote, but instead we had opinion polls and tried to find an agreement later. After many long months of cooperation, we finally reached a point where we were not able to find any more commonalities. We knew that was time to freeze Creole 1.0 for the next two years to allow time for adoption. The WikiCreole wiki (www.wikicreole.org) now has extensive reasoning through documentation of the empirical analysis and discussions of the elements that back up the spec. Today, ten wiki engines support Creole and many more are planning to implement it in the coming months. Wiki engine developers implementing WikiCreole in their parsers give a clear sign to the community of their readiness to cooperate to draw us all closer together, making life easier for everyone in the wiki world.
With the support of i3G (Interdisciplinary Institute for Intelligent Business Processes), Christoph Sauer and Chuck Smith have led the process with great help from the wiki developer community through its initial concept to 1.0. The i3G, located in Heilbronn (Germany) is trying to overcome the barriers between computer science, engineering and business, through their selection of content and personnel. They are also developing customized concepts for small and medium-sized companies to help optimize operational workflow and its representation for IT systems.
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24 04-Jul-2007 15:01 3.844 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last better formatting
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