Tue, 19 Jul 2005
I installed Mediawiki today. It's...different.
Wikipedia is an excellent web site that functions as an encyclopedia that's peer reviewed by everyone on the world wide web. It has a markup language that's not HTML, which up until now I thought was the world wide standard for putting text on the www for end users. I guess I'm wrong.
Mediawiki uses it's own markup language for formatting text, which the backend translates into vaild XHTML so your web browser can display it properly. Personally, I have
a lot of experience with HTML and a little less with XHTML. I memorized the important parts and used it to publish my own writing on the web and get jobs publishing other people's. It isn't that difficult. Yet I have found a lot of people who think it is, which is why I believe the wiki media foundation invented their own markup language.
But I can't help asking, is this markup really that different than HTML? Is it really less complicated?
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