[Geany] Wiki?

Frank Lanitz frank at xxxxx
Wed Mar 16 06:25:46 UTC 2011


On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:48:14 +1100
Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16 March 2011 10:42, Russell Dickenson
> <russelldickenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 16 March 2011 09:35, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 16 March 2011 10:29, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> >>> On 03/15/11 15:53, Dominic Hopf wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> To be consistent with other documents: Is there one that supports
> >>>> restructuredText out of the box?
> >>>
> >>> Outside of the Geany developers (and/or doc writers), I don't
> >>> think it would be as common to users for this purpose.  That
> >>> being said, MoinMoin seems to support it out of the box[1], and
> >>> MediaWiki via an extension[2].
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://moinmo.in/ReStructuredText
> >>> [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RstToHtml
> >>
> >> I don't really mind what markup, but I will note that some are
> >> pushing for Creole to become a standard & IIUC several wikis now
> >> support it.
> >
> > I'm guessing that the idea of seeking a wiki which supports ReST was
> > that if the newsletter was produced in ReST markup, it could be
> > cut-and-pasted into the wiki.
> 
> Geany's documentation is ReST, and as we discussed early in the
> newsletter discussion, probably better to keep to one tool.
> 
> But the wiki is likely to have wider use than those changing Geany
> documentation (hopefully :-) so its markup should be a more widely
> used one.  If it also supports ReST and so allows pasting of
> newsletters, documentation etc then that would be a good point in
> favor of that particular wiki engine.

Yes. Also it should support some kind of normal wiki syntax as many
people know from common used installations for mediawiki -> [] etc. But
most of wikis I did see last time are doing this. 

Cheers, 
Frank
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