19692 2012-10-25 04:24:25 +0000 Add ability to edit (and copy/paste) in markdown format 2012-12-12 23:12:04 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified webplatform.org infrastructure unspecified All All REOPENED P2 minor --- 1 samdutton schepers jonathan team-webplatform-admin public-webplatform-bugs oldest_to_newest 77080 0 samdutton 2012-10-25 04:24:25 +0000 It would be useful to be able to edit (and copy/paste) content using markdown format. This extension seems to offer that: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MarkdownSyntax 77245 1 jonathan 2012-10-29 02:37:21 +0000 I personally don't see where this would come in handy unless we started to use markdown as the primary syntax. This would just add one more way to do content which would just add to confusion on markup. I will bring it up in the Mailing List though and see what others think of the idea. 77319 2 jonathan 2012-10-29 19:39:48 +0000 Looks pretty quickly decided in the Mailing List by others that we shouldn't allow multiple syntaxes. We will continue to stick with MediaWiki syntax for simplicity and sanity's sake. There is some work being done to a plugin for the Q&A system to use markdown as a code syntax there to allow for some formatting. Janet Swisher pointed out in the Mailing List that you can use Pandoc [1] to convert between markup syntaxes. So you can code in markdown and use this to convert before importing into WPD. [1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try 77440 3 jonathan 2012-10-30 16:48:43 +0000 Discussion is resuming on this from the Telcon. 77441 4 jonathan 2012-10-30 16:59:30 +0000 Just a quick thought from the telcon from Paul: Using Markdown should probably by done client side, but information posted to the server should remain in true MediaWiki syntax. (If I heard properly that was the gist of it.) 80052 5 jonathan 2012-12-12 23:12:04 +0000 Paul (Irish) and I talked about the markdown stuff today at the Docsprint. We are pretty sure using Pandoc to do the conversion on the server is the way to go. The thing is we need to have it configured to interpret in between the save of a page using a template and as the content is being written to the DB. I'm not sure exactly where it needs to fall but that sounds right to me. (Actually, just thinking about it in more detail I need to email Alex to see how the form system works exactly when saving data to figure out the best method.)