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Wiki Upgrade Plans

I've been working on bug#18975 trying to make wiki editing easier. Our interpretation of that is:

  1. using HTML for markup instead of "wiki syntax" (ie, not Mediawiki, the Text_Wiki syntax we were using, or Mindtouch wiki that MDC switched to)
  2. Add a featureful WYSIWYG editor to make editing HTML content easier
  3. Maintain an easy way for linking to other pages

Our progress on this can be found on our dev server; an example page is here:
http://www.vebzom.org/drupal/wiki/MozdevDocs

A snapshot of data was made today and most projects' wikis were upgraded on our dev server. Please check it out and let us know what's broken or you like/don't like.

A few notable changes/improvements:

  • CamelCase words are no longer linked. You must link via [[Square Brackets]] to pages
  • Table of Contents are added via an HTML comment: <!--tableofcontents-->
  • Geshi code highlighting is only supported by editing the source and adding a <blockquote> tag

That's all I can think of right now; let us know what you think!

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