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::::: This is definitely ''not'' "some old-fashioned wikispaces syntax". It's used by lots of simplified markup languages also used by [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown Markdown]. On the contrary, most wiki engines use it, please have a look at [https://www.wikimatrix.org/syntax.php?i=32 wikimatrix.org]. Maybe it's time to give in now, isn't it? <br/> Best --[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 10:37, 1 October 2018 (UTC) | ::::: This is definitely ''not'' "some old-fashioned wikispaces syntax". It's used by lots of simplified markup languages also used by [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown Markdown]. On the contrary, most wiki engines use it, please have a look at [https://www.wikimatrix.org/syntax.php?i=32 wikimatrix.org]. Maybe it's time to give in now, isn't it? <br/> Best --[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 10:37, 1 October 2018 (UTC) | ||
::::::Except that while <code>wikispaces</code> was an educational simplified markup language, wikitext (the system used by MediaWiki) shouldn't be treated as one. I think [[FREEZE]] was right, it turned the childish <code>wikispaces</code> syntax into the proper wikitext syntax that probably didn't work in <code>wikispaces</code>. | ::::::Except that while <code>wikispaces</code> was an educational simplified markup language, wikitext (the system used by MediaWiki) shouldn't be treated as one. I think [[FREEZE]] was right, it turned the childish <code>wikispaces</code> syntax into the proper wikitext syntax that probably didn't work in <code>wikispaces</code>. | ||
::::::: Here are a few more reasons to use wiki text The wikitext requires fewer charactrs to type, is easier for a newbie to use, is easier to read on the page, and also - it always gives syntactically correct htrml. If everyone used the html then the pages would be full of syntactical errors as few have the eye for detail to type syntactically correct html free hand unless they compose it in an external html editor and import it into the wiki text, which rather defeats the purpose. If we add a visual editor then it will generate wikitext rather than html. If you want to write your lists as html - I suggest you then convert them to wikitext using an html to wikitext conversion tool. The mediawiki software will then convert them back to syntatctically correct html when the page is presented. Sometimes the html tags are useful, for instance div tags, for doing things that are not possible within wikitext. However the usual approach is to wrap up all the html details into templates as those are the least error prone. Tags are still used in wikitext in places, e.g. the <nowiki><math></nowiki> and <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tags and indeed the <nowiki><nowiki></nowiki> tag and extensions introduce new tags such as the <nowiki><poem></nowiki> if you install the Poem extension, also <nowiki><sup></nowiki> and <nowiki><sub></nowiki> are often used for simple mathematical expressions in place of the Latex formulae, to take some examples. But it's usually to do things you can't do in wikitext. It's not the most syntactically elegant of systems I know, but it's one people are familiar with from Wikipedia and wikis generally, and far easier for newbies to use correctly, because it's almost impossible to make syntactically incorrect wikitext except with misplaced tags. [[User:Robertinventor|Robertinventor]] ([[User talk:Robertinventor|talk]]) 13:54, 2 October 2018 (UTC) | |||
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