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Bug 19692 - Add ability to edit (and copy/paste) in markdown format
Summary: Add ability to edit (and copy/paste) in markdown format
Status: REOPENED
Alias: None
Product: webplatform.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: infrastructure (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Doug Schepers
QA Contact: public-webplatform-bugs list
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Reported: 2012-10-25 04:24 UTC by Sam Dutton
Modified: 2012-12-12 23:12 UTC (History)
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Description Sam Dutton 2012-10-25 04:24:25 UTC
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
Comment 1 Jonathan Garbee 2012-10-29 02:37:21 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Jonathan Garbee 2012-10-29 19:39:48 UTC
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
Comment 3 Jonathan Garbee 2012-10-30 16:48:43 UTC
Discussion is resuming on this from the Telcon.
Comment 4 Jonathan Garbee 2012-10-30 16:59:30 UTC
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.)
Comment 5 Jonathan Garbee 2012-12-12 23:12:04 UTC
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.)