News

On 05-Aug-2007, Chuck Smith and Christoph Sauer will be presenting WikiCreole and its practical applications - the future of wiki interaction at Wikimania in Taipei. Our poster can be found at CheatSheet/creole_poster.pdf.

Last week we sent out a press release to announce that Creole 1.0 is stable and live. In the past week, developers of the two most popular wiki engines (TWiki and MediaWiki) have been discussing how to best implement it. We will be having another IRC meeting on July 24 at 21:00 GMT to discuss ways to promote Creole.

In our latest IRC chat last night, we had the following participants: Christopher Dent, Radomir Dopieralski, Martin Junghans, Mattis Manzel, Yves Piguet, Christoph Sauer, Chuck Smith and Mark Wharton. An archive of our chat can be found at http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/26JunMeeting. We approved Multiline List Items and decided to use space within nowiki to escape the closing triple curly brackets.

We will have another follow-up meeting on how to promote Creole on Tuesday, 2007-Jul-03, 21:00 GMT, IRC channel #creole on freenode.

We had a very productive IRC chat last night with the following participants: Radomir Dopieralski, Martin J, Yves Piguet, Christoph Sauer, Alex Schroeder and Chuck Smith. An archive of our chat can be found at 19 Jun Meeting. We successfully covered the topics of whitespace before horizontal rules and url escaping rules. As for whitespace, we decided as a general rule that leading whitespace is allowed before Creole elements, for example: headings, list items, horizontal rules and tables.

Now only two issues remain: whether to have multiline list items and how to escape the ending triple curly braces within nowiki. It is asked that after you explore the issues, to please indicate your position in the Creole 1.0 Poll.

We will have another follow-up meeting on Tuesday, 2007-Jun-26, 21:00 GMT, IRC channel #creole on freenode.

After we published Creole 1.0 for comment, the only complaint we received was that the escape character was not in the core as mentioned by Mark Wharton and Oliver Horn. So, we are now adding the escape character and are open for discussion until June 13. Since it will be frozen for two years, we want to make sure 1.0 is as good as possible.

We have listened to the community and have decided to reject the previous proposal for Creole 1.0 and have renamed it Creole 0.7. Now we have a new proposal for Creole 1.0 and welcome your comments (both positive and negative).

Changes from Creole 0.6:

• replaced hyphen with asterisk for bullet lists
• added interwiki links