Following an informal meeting (with Jean-Marc and Roberto) we decided a generic discussion/presentation about markdown would be more ‘’collaborative’’ than the usual “here are the new things in tiki” talk, but with the opportunity to mention tiki 25 if there’s time.
Related: TikiFestFosdem2023
So here are some notes (work in progress)
And its arrival in Tiki 25
Following GitHub’s adoption and ”flavouring” of Markdown in 2009, many other major projects such as Reddit, Stack Exchange have followed suit, even WhatsApp now uses it to add formatting to your instant messages. That’s mainstream!
Tiki has long wished for a common wiki markup language, starting with involvement in Wiki Creole and inclusion of PEAR Text_Wiki adaptors since 2010? we started integrating markdown and now, in Tiki 25, offer it as an alternative syntax in all text areas, such as wiki pages, blog posts, comments and so on. In future versions Markdown will become the only active syntax.
Say hello to Tiki Flavored Markdown
Inventor Ward Cunningham 1994
Tiki started 2001(?)
Swartz and Gruber create Markdown 2004
John MacFarlane created CommonMark
I started an event on the FOSDEM site provisionally titled "The Relentless March of Markdown"
1) |
17 Oct 2024 14:00 GMT-0000
Tiki Roundtable Meeting |
2) |
21 Nov 2024 14:00 GMT-0000
Tiki Roundtable Meeting |
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19 Dec 2024 14:00 GMT-0000
Tiki Roundtable Meeting |
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Tiki birthday |