Wikisym 2007 Workshop

Here is a page to discuss an outline for the Wikisym 2007 Workshop on Promoting Creole.

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?

Commercial Use #

• 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.

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

User Education #

• Survey
• Handbooks
• Online videos
• Workshops

Financing #

• Who is willing to donate?
• What organization would handle the money?
• Printing t-shirts
• Paying designers
• Paying Creole developers

Communication #

• Official WikiCreole mailing list

Outcomes #

• Survey
• Promotional ideas on WikiCreole.org wiki: page Promotion