Aloha Wiki Users!#
Wikis share common values, each wiki engine has its strength and weaknesses. There are wikis for big communities, best for corporate usage depending on the IT infrastructure and wikis that are simple to install and therefore ideal for personal usage. Users have different roles and might use therefore different wiki engines. Because wiki engines have different markup variants it makes them hard to use in combination.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. Creole will create a community of wikis users and developers that forms a Wiki Ohana. This Wiki was initiated and originally set up by the people at the Wiki Markup Standard Workshop
at the Wikisym 06.
Our conclusions for a beta wiki Creole markup have been placed at all markup (detailed analysis can be found at elements). Developers of 8 wiki engines have expressed willingness to implement Creole in their software. We are not setting up any strict guidelines for implementation, but will leave that up to the developers to decide which way would be best.
 |
Some notes for new visitors#
If you are not familiar with the markup you can change the editor at the right top of the edit area from plain (default) to WikiWizard, which has buttons for all common elements. Of course there is a sandbox as well.For more details see How to use this Wiki
--Christoph 27-Aug-06