[wiki-standards] WikiWyg --> interwiki markup translators for free

[bshanks]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 10:48:21PM -0500, Sunir Shah wrote:
> In theory... in practice, Wikiwyg doesn't transform 
> isomorphically. It'll be like using machine translation
> to go from English to French to English again.

okay, but any wiki markup translators which use an intermediate
"standard" language (i.e. translate moinmoin markup to mediawiki
markup by: moinmoin --> standard language --> mediawiki) would have
this problem to some degree, right? 

I would be surprised if any interwiki markup translation scheme was so
good that a translation from moinmoin --> standard
language --> mediawiki --> standard language --> moinmoin gave you the
same thing you started with in all cases. 

so i think it's a (very big) start -- i doubt we will achieve
much better with any translation scheme using an intermediate
"standard" language.





On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 10:48:21PM -0500, Sunir Shah wrote:
> In theory... in practice, Wikiwyg doesn't transform 
> isomorphically. It'll be like using machine translation
> to go from English to French to English again.
> 
> Best,
> Sunir
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:wiki-standards-bounces at wikisym.org] On Behalf Of Bayle
> Shanks
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 8:49 PM
> To: wiki-standards at wikisym.org
> Subject: [wiki-standards] WikiWyg --> interwiki markup
> translators for free
> 
> At RecentChangesCamp, Ingy pointed out something very cool: 
> 
> In order for any particular wiki engine to use
> WikiWyg, you have to code both directions of translation between
> the
> wiki source and HTML. 
> 
> This means that you have everything you need to
> translate between wiki pages on any two engines which use
> WikiWyg!!!
> 
> Yeah!!!
> 
> 
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