general Wiki format question and Python Wiki markup parsing libraries

[John Roth]

"Jarek Zgoda" <jzgoda at gazeta.usun.pl> wrote in message
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> chris <csad7 at yahoo.com> pisze:
>
> > is there something like a "standard" wiki format at all, or at least one
> > that is widely used?
>
> Don't think so. I saw more than 10 "simplified markups", of which nearly
> all was more complicated than original HTML.

Well, I think the "simplified" seems to be a tradeoff in
terms of fewer keystrokes, rather than any conceptual
simplicity. If you really want to simplify things, please come
up with a little WISIWIG editor rather than yet more
line noise.

John Roth

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