!!!Possible Goals

The following goals where formulated at the [Wikisym 06]. Every participant then had three votes to determine which were the most important to them for discussion. Goals that had more than four votes are in bold.

Markup should be:

# __Collision Free__ (Principle of least conflict)
# __Not new__ (Principle of least innovation)
# __Extensible by omission __
# __Cover the common things people need__
# Avoiding Text Tags (principle of I18N)
# Avoiding difficult Key Combos (Principle of Foreign Keyboards)
# Have a sort of best practices
# Distinction between images and pages
# Not reliant on whitespaces
# Stable for the next 3 years
# Non-destructive on current page structure (editing does not remove elements)
# There's no wrong way to implement creole
# Fast to type
# Not html 
# Readable
# Easy to learn/teach
# Clear separation of markup & content
# Less principles than markup
# Well defined whitespace