[Rack] Markdown on the Wiki

Robert Fletcher lobatifricha at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 01:22:50 UTC 2011


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.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Robert Fletcher <lobatifricha at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I suppose it's an off chance, but would it be possible for someone to
> > install a mediawiki plugin on the Noisebridge wiki to allow markdown
> > syntax?  I've been doing my classnotes in markdown locally and it would
> be
> > pretty awesome to just past it into the wiki.  There are a couple of
> plugins
> > out there:
> >
> > I like this one better, but it also looks a bit outdated:
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AlternateSyntaxParser
> >
> > And then there's this one, which looks like it converts the markdown to
> > valid wiki syntax:
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MarkdownSyntax
>
> Hey Robert,
>
> It's funny that you should bring this up, as I work with a lot of
> Rubyists and I recently setup an internal Mediawiki instance for work
> and migrated from Gitit (which uses markdown internally for markup).
> I ended up converting everything from markdown to mediawiki syntax
> with Pandoc, but some users still wanted to use markdown.
>
> The MarkdownSyntax plugin works well, but it's all-or-nothing, so I
> think that installing it would come as a bit of a shock to regular
> wiki editors.
>
> I had some trouble getting the AlternateSyntaxParser one to work with
> modern versions of MediaWiki, though it does seem like the right thing
> to do since it lets you mix syntaxes within your wiki.
>
>
> Personally, I'd just recommend hooking your markdown notes through
> Pandoc to convert back and forth between forms. It'll accomplish what
> you want (albeit, with a bit of local work to hook into your browser)
> without affecting other users.
>
> Cheers,
> jof
>
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