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(A DRAFT IN PROCESS)
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FOR RELEASE AFTER THE WIKICREOLE 1.0 LAUNCH, PLEASE DO **NOT** PUBLICIZE YET
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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.
=== ~WikiCreole 1.0 - a common wiki markup ===
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( ... more about Creole and the process here ... )
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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.
Heilbronn, Germany, 4th July 2007 - After a year of diligent effort, a group of nearly 50 dedicated users and developers are proud to release [[Creole 1.0|WikiCreole 1.0]]. Creole is designed to be a common wiki markup language which augments existing markup to enable wiki users to transfer content seamlessly across wikis, a boon to novice and expert users alike.
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Creole, taking its name from the field of linguistics, a stable language that originated from a combination of two or more languages. As every wiki software has its own markup definitions, the differences can make them difficult for novices to learn and experts to remember, thus a common wiki markup lays the foundation for development of cross-engine wiki software.
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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]]
The Creole name for a common markup was born from an idea of wiki founder Ward Cunningham at Wikimania 2006 the international Wikipedia conference. The goal: create a common markup that was not a standardization of an arbitrary existing markup, but rather a new markup language that was created out of the common elements of all existing engines. Under this premise the Wiki Creole Working Group analyzed existing wiki markup and compiled a greatest-common denominator subset of elements and presented its report.
Practitioners and wiki developers were then invited to a workshop at [[WikiSym 2006]] in Denmark to learn about Creole and discuss how to proceed. WikiSym is a symposium (conference) series dedicated to wiki research and practice. Participants evaluated different markup elements for possible unification and added them to a wiki created for this purpose. The resulting data resulted in the first version of the Creole spec, version 0.1. Many workshop participants also agreed to implement Creole into their existing wiki implementations.
In true wiki fashion, the report and data were published to a wider audience who were unable to attend allowing them to discuss the decisions made and add their own proposals. An iterative workflow was introduced that discussed and introduced these new proposals into the spec. Discussion pages were used to address each topic and at the end of each iteration (4-8 weeks), a new version number was added to the spec.
The working group's goal was to emphasize consensus instead of majority rule, so opinion polls were always followed by an attempt to reach mutual agreement. After many long months of cooperation, the working group finally reached a point of maximum commonalities. Creole 1.0 was then frozen for the next two years to allow time for adoption. The ~WikiCreole site (www.wikicreole.org) now has extensive documentation of the empirical analysis and discussions of the elements to support the decisions behind 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 and draw us all closer together, making life easier for everyone in the wiki world.
With the support of [[http://www.i3g.hs-heilbronn.de/|i3G]] (Interdisciplinary Institute for Intelligent Business Processes; Heilbronn, Germany), Christoph Sauer and Chuck Smith have led the process with great help from the wiki developer community through its initial concept to 1.0. Through their selection of content and personnel, i3G, is trying to overcome the barriers between computer science, engineering and business. They also develop customized concepts for companies to help optimize operational workflow and its representation for IT systems.
For more information, please visit http://www.i3g.hs-heilbronn.de/
Press contact\\
Chuck Smith, i3G Institute - Heilbronn University\\
T: +49 7131 504 474\\
E: csmith(at)hs-heilbronn.de
Digg: [[http://digg.com/software/WikiCreole_1_0_a_common_wiki_markup]]
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25 04-Jul-2007 15:06 3.914 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last i3G homepage
24 04-Jul-2007 15:01 3.844 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last better formatting
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