[pmwiki] Re: [Pmwiki-users] Whitepaper about markup strategy

Dawn Green green at thunderdata.com
Fri May 16 17:00:23 CDT 2003


> > Third, as I often tell others, I fairly strongly reject the claim that
> > "authors don't have to use the advanced markup if they don't want to".
> > I don't think that's true in a collaborative environment.  If
> 
> Collaboration means that the collaborators are somewhat on the same level.
> So if there is collaboration in a particular enviroment, why shoudn't they
> have advanced markup. I am thinking of e.g. a bug reporting wiki, where
> the markup could even be generated using forms.

I'm not sure I agree with Bernhard's thoughts here.  I finished speaking with
a group today interested in implementing PmWiki for their site.  One of the
strong selling points for this system is that everyone is give a set of markup
to work with and, on that level, I like the KISS principal.  In the sites we
develop ourselves, we only use so many font styles, formats, etc.  So why
offer the world to  site authors when most of it would never be used in the
first place?  And to compound that, if the world was offered and used by a few
then the site would not have a consistent look and feel.  And that would
defeat what to me is a primary benefit of PmWiki.

Dawn







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