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This is the [peripheral vision|http://www.zengestrom.com/blog/2006/07/blind_mens_base.html] page. We try to collect stuff here that is going on outside of this wiki. So don't use this page directly to discuss, instead use the discussion pages that belong to the page you are interested in. If you would like to suggest something and don't know where to put it, use the [Talk] page.

!!!Common Things People Need

see [Goals]
* [Wikipedia Spickzettel |http://www.wikimedia.de/files/Spickzettel.pdf#search=%22Wikipedia%20Spickzettel%22] Cheat Sheet for the MediaWiki Markup

!!!Blogentries
People's opinions on creole.

* [http://www.eekim.com/blog/2006/08/07/wikimania2006creole]
* [http://www.ecyrd.com/ButtUgly/wiki/Main_blogentry_290806_1]
* [http://www.blogschmog.net/blog/?p=420]
* [http://www.blogschmog.net/blog/?p=395]
* [http://wiki.sheep.art.pl/wiki/2006-08-29_wiki]
* [http://www.cosmocode.de/en/blogs/gohr/20060823230943/index.html]
* [http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex/2006-09-04_Wiki_Creole]

add your blogentries here...

!!!Mailing Lists
* [wiki research mailinglist|http://www.wikisym.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research]

!!!Newsletters
* [OLPC news|http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf/latest/news?OpenDocument]

!!!Other Discussions and Standardisation Attempts

* [TikiWiki RFC|http://tikiwiki.org/RFCWiki]
* [Meatball Discussion on Wiki Markup Standard|http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiMarkupStandard]
* [One Laptop Per Child Document Format|http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=users/krstic/docformat;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=document-format.txt] (work in progress, very similar to Creole)
* [YAML|http://www.yaml.org/] - machine parsable data serialization format designed for human readability 
* [Markdown|http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/] - lightweight markup language used in variety of programming languages
* [Wiki syntax examples|http://piclab.com/lee/index.php/Wiki_syntax_examples] - Daniel Lee Crocker's proposal for MediaWiki syntax reform
* [mozilla.org Markup Reference|http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/writing/markup] 
* [Textile|http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/]

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