[wiki-standards] WikiCreole 1.0 Press Release

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Congrats!

On 7/4/07, Janne Jalkanen <Janne.Jalkanen at ecyrd.com> wrote:
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> Congrats!
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> /Janne
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> On 4 Jul 2007, at 15:00, Chuck Smith wrote:
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> > Link to this press release:
> > http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/WikiCreolePressRelease
> > To digg it: http://digg.com/software/
> > WikiCreole_1_0_a_common_wiki_markup
> >
> > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> >
> > After a year of diligent effort, a group of nearly 50 dedicated users
> > and developers are proud to release WikiCreole 1.0. Creole is designed
> > to be a common wiki markup language which augments existing markup to
> > enable wiki users to transfer content seamlessly across wikis, a boon
> > to novice and expert users alike.
> >
> > Creole, taking its name from the field of linguistics, a stable
> > language that originated from a combination of two or more languages.
> > As every wiki software has its own markup definitions, the differences
> > can make them difficult for novices to learn and experts to remember,
> > thus a common wiki markup lays the foundation for development of
> > cross-engine wiki software.
> >
> > The Creole name for a common markup was born from an idea of wiki
> > founder Ward Cunningham at Wikimania 2006 the international Wikipedia
> > conference. The goal: create a common markup that was not a
> > standardization of an arbitrary existing markup, but rather a new
> > markup language that was created out of the common elements of all
> > existing engines. Under this premise the Wiki Creole Working Group
> > analyzed existing wiki markup and compiled a greatest-common
> > denominator subset of elements and presented its report.
> >
> > Practitioners and wiki developers were then invited to a workshop at
> > WikiSym 2006 in Denmark to learn about Creole and discuss how to
> > proceed. WikiSym is a symposium (conference) series dedicated to wiki
> > research and practice. Participants evaluated different markup
> > elements for possible unification and added them to a wiki created for
> > this purpose. The resulting data resulted in the first version of the
> > Creole spec, version 0.1. Many workshop participants also agreed to
> > implement Creole into their existing wiki implementations.
> >
> > In true wiki fashion, the report and data were published to a wider
> > audience who were unable to attend allowing them to discuss the
> > decisions made and add their own proposals. An iterative workflow was
> > introduced that discussed and introduced these new proposals into the
> > spec. Discussion pages were used to address each topic and at the end
> > of each iteration (4-8 weeks), a new version number was added to the
> > spec.
> >
> > The working group's goal was to emphasize consensus instead of
> > majority rule, so opinion polls were always followed by an attempt to
> > reach mutual agreement. After many long months of cooperation, the
> > working group finally reached a point of maximum commonalities. Creole
> > 1.0 was then frozen for the next two years to allow time for adoption.
> > The WikiCreole site (www.wikicreole.org) now has extensive
> > documentation of the empirical analysis and discussions of the
> > elements to support the decisions behind the spec. Today, ten wiki
> > engines support Creole and many more are planning to implement it in
> > the coming months. Wiki engine developers implementing WikiCreole in
> > their parsers, give a clear sign to the community of their readiness
> > to cooperate and draw us all closer together, making life easier for
> > everyone in the wiki world.
> >
> > With the support of i3G (Interdisciplinary Institute for Intelligent
> > Business Processes; Heilbronn, Germany), Christoph Sauer and Chuck
> > Smith have led the process with great help from the wiki developer
> > community through its initial concept to 1.0. Through their selection
> > of content and personnel, i3G, is trying to overcome the barriers
> > between computer science, engineering and business. They also develop
> > customized concepts for companies to help optimize operational
> > workflow and its representation for IT systems.
> >
> > For more details, contact Chuck Smith at +49 7131 504 474 or
> > csmith(at)hs-heilbronn.de
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