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(A DRAFT IN PROCESS)

FOR RELEASE AFTER THE WIKICREOLE 1.0 LAUNCH, PLEASE DO NOT PUBLICIZE YET

After a year of working together with the wiki community, we are now releasing WikiCreole 1.0. Creole is a common wiki markup language to be used across different wikis. It's not replacing existing markup but instead enabling wiki users to transfer content seamlessly across wikis, and for novice users to contribute more easily. The problem is that every wiki software has its own markup which makes it difficult to teach a generic wiki markup, as well as for people to use more than one wiki engine regularly. This also creates a foundation for wiki software to be developed which can work across multiple wiki engines.

( ... more about Creole and the process here ... )

At the Wikimania 2006 in Boston, Christoph Sauer and Chuck Smith met with Ward Cunningham to think up the revolutionary idea of not replacing current wiki markup, but rather to create a markup to be used alongside existing "native" wiki engine code. During the WikiSym 2006 in Denmark, i3G (Interdisciplinary Institute for Intelligent Business Processes) paved the way to developing a common wiki markup by bringing together key players in the community to meet and move toward a common wiki markup to help wikis across the board. i3G is trying to overcome the barriers between computer science, engineering and business, through our selection of content and personnel. They are also developing customized concepts for small and medium-sized companies to help optimize operational workflow and its representation for IT systems.


I am at a bit of a block on how to continue this at the moment. Everyone should feel free to add what you have in mind and I'll take another shot at it tomorrow. Perhaps the last paragraph sounds a bit too marketing... --Chuck Smith

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« This particular version was published on 12-Jun-2007 17:31 by ChuckSmith.