zwiki.org seems down so a few questions

[Alexander Poslavsky]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:30:26 +0100, Ben Edwards <funkytwig at gmail.com> wrote:

> > As an extra question: What will the default markup language be? Who
> > would be able to find out?
> 
> I think this is a BIG issue.  To reduce the barrier to entry of the
> wiki from a technical point of view having lost of different markups
> is real problem.  Its OK to have plain text and one other but we have
> 5!.  HTML being the most worrying - it is  very flexible but is easy
> to malform and will scare a lot of people away.  My gut reaction would
> be to go for moin as that is what everything is already in and I think
> it works well.

lots of markuo possibilties do not work with moin, i would vote for
moin,  reStructured Text and plain text (html as exception to some
pages if that would be possible). Remove the rest.

All this with reStructured Text as default