I just started working in a different department of my daytime source of income generation and of course made a point of checking out the state of local wiki’s. It turns out that there is a Media Wiki installed which is something I haven’t used before but SnipSnap was getting a little long in the tooth so what the heck.
Wanting to create a table I read the Media Wiki table help and was absolutely horrified. Really this is no better than typing HTML table tags. There seems to be a 1 to 1 correspondence between HTML markup and wiki markup. Contrast this to the expressive and elegant Twiki table markup which achieves much the same functionality with a lot less code.
Even with the javascript syntax assistants in the media Wiki edit box this whole syntax is really just a waste of time and Twiki has had the same syntax for at least 5 years that I can remember.
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I just started working in a different department of my daytime source of income generation and of course made a point of checking out the state of local wiki’s. It turns out that there is a Media Wiki installed which is something I haven’t used before but SnipSnap was getting a little long in the tooth so what the heck.
Wanting to create a table I read the Media Wiki table help and was absolutely horrified. Really this is no better than typing HTML table tags. There seems to be a 1 to 1 correspondence between HTML markup and wiki markup. Contrast this to the expressive and elegant Twiki table markup which achieves much the same functionality with a lot less code.
Even with the javascript syntax assistants in the media Wiki edit box this whole syntax is really just a waste of time and Twiki has had the same syntax for at least 5 years that I can remember.
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