WikiCreole: Wikisym 2007 Workshop

Here is a page to discuss an outline for the Wikisym 2007 Workshop

on Promoting Creole. For a concise summary, please see our news entry.

Why Use Wiki Markup?

reliable
accessibility (blind users)

When to use WYSIWYG?

Non-technical users want them.
Non-technical users don't want to learn markup.

Evaluation

How many people are aware of Creole?
How many people are using it? 50. The WikiCreole community and their friends.

Answers:

Make a survey on wikicreole.org.
Link to it from wikimatrix, wikipatterns, from people we meet at WikiSym, blogs, etc.

Testing

What tests have been done for Creole?
What can be learned from them?
What isn't working in Creole?

Answer: Potential roadblocks are escaping and lists. These problems could be alleviated by better communication between implementers through a mailing list, for example.

Implementation

Formal grammars?
Creole validator?

Promotional Ideas

How can we elevate Creole, so clients demand it from vendors?
Introducing Creole to W3C? - Dirk Riehle will look into that.
Contacting influential markup developers for support. - Mark Bernstein will look into this.
Ask for testimonials.
Making WikiCreole.org for decision-makers
WordPress plugin? - Chuck will look into a PHP evangelist.
Create Implementation Issues page for implementers looking for support.

Relation to other markups

How does WikiCreole relate, in the long run, to Markdown or Textile?

Creole is more suitable for wikis and for collaborative editing.

In ten years, will these be interchange formats, or will we still be encoding markup?

We need converters between these lightweight markups, perhaps through a bridge markup like XML or WikiByte.

Promotional materials

Translating CheatSheet to other languages
Logo - Andi G will ask colleague
Technical magazine articles
- Analysis of Survey
- Need for Creole
- Details about Design Decisions
T-Shirts