Yeah, that's actually what I've done before. Pandoc doesn't do too great a job with my markdown for some reason though, so I convert it to html first using rdiscount and then to wiki with pandoc. At any rate, thanks for the comments.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jof@thejof.com">jof@thejof.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Robert Fletcher <<a href="mailto:lobatifricha@gmail.com">lobatifricha@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I suppose it's an off chance, but would it be possible for someone to<br>
> install a mediawiki plugin on the Noisebridge wiki to allow markdown<br>
> syntax? I've been doing my classnotes in markdown locally and it would be<br>
> pretty awesome to just past it into the wiki. There are a couple of plugins<br>
> out there:<br>
><br>
> I like this one better, but it also looks a bit outdated:<br>
> <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AlternateSyntaxParser" target="_blank">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AlternateSyntaxParser</a><br>
><br>
> And then there's this one, which looks like it converts the markdown to<br>
> valid wiki syntax:<br>
> <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MarkdownSyntax" target="_blank">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MarkdownSyntax</a><br>
<br>
</div></div>Hey Robert,<br>
<br>
It's funny that you should bring this up, as I work with a lot of<br>
Rubyists and I recently setup an internal Mediawiki instance for work<br>
and migrated from Gitit (which uses markdown internally for markup).<br>
I ended up converting everything from markdown to mediawiki syntax<br>
with Pandoc, but some users still wanted to use markdown.<br>
<br>
The MarkdownSyntax plugin works well, but it's all-or-nothing, so I<br>
think that installing it would come as a bit of a shock to regular<br>
wiki editors.<br>
<br>
I had some trouble getting the AlternateSyntaxParser one to work with<br>
modern versions of MediaWiki, though it does seem like the right thing<br>
to do since it lets you mix syntaxes within your wiki.<br>
<br>
<br>
Personally, I'd just recommend hooking your markdown notes through<br>
Pandoc to convert back and forth between forms. It'll accomplish what<br>
you want (albeit, with a bit of local work to hook into your browser)<br>
without affecting other users.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
jof<br>
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