To use, just tag your tiddler with the appropriate tag. For example, to use MediaWiki format in a tiddler, tag the tiddler with MediaWikiFormat. To try it out you could create a tiddler, go to Wikipedia and fetch the wikitext of an article, paste it into your tiddler and then tag the tiddler with MediaWikiFormat.
Similarly, you could transfer wikitext to and from TWiki or Trac wikis.
Note that these are early releases and they are not complete. (For example support for images in MediaWikiFormat is incomplete, as is support for nested tables and templates). However I think they are complete enough to be useful. I'd appreciate it if you post any bugs you find in this group.
And for a bit of fun I've created a "TiddlyWikipedia" by posting a number of articles directly from Wikipedia. See:
Note this is a bit slow to load. Note also that the rendering is not perfect - I'm aware of this, but posted this anyway, since I think it is a useful demonstrator and proof of concept.
Great wikifiers! I will be definitely be using the TWiki formatter, and I have already tried it out. Can we make a way to globally enable this for all tiddlers? Can we make it possible to support both TWiki and TiddlyWiki formatters at the same time? What I really want to do is be able to embed tiddlywikis as TWiki pages. It can be done right now by attaching an html page. I may work on a TWiki plugin to enhance this ability.
Here are my observations so far on possible formatting improvements TWiki also supports <br> as a line break Header formatting- In Twiki, the size of '---+' is really large, and '---++' creates a highlighted background like Tiddlywiki's '!' ---+++ ---+++
a) "Can we make a way to globally enable this for all tiddlers?", do you mean can we make the default (say) "TWikiFormat"? This is actually quite tricky, since TiddlyWiki itself relies on Tiddlers in standard format. I have a longer term plan to look into this, though.
b) "Can we make it possible to support both TWiki and TiddlyWiki formatters at the same time?". We already can. I expect you mean: "Can you have TWiki and standard format in a single tiddler?". This again is tricky, and in the the general case there are formatting conflicts between different wikifiers.
But as a partial answer to (a) and (b) it would be possible to have a pluging that supports as subset of TWiki format (the subset that does not conflict with TiddlyWiki format) and have this "always on".
I already have a plan for a MediaWiki table formatter plugin, so that you can use MediaWiki format tables within normal tiddlers. (I've chosen MediaWiki format tables because they are by far the richest and most powerful tables of any of the Wikis I have looked at. The also have a nice syntax).
(c) <br> as line break. That's easy and I'll add it over the weekend. (d) "the size of '---+' is really large...". I'll look into this, but I presume it is just a style thing.
You understand perfectly, thanks! I have a tiddlywiki as an attachment on TWiki right now- will let you know if I ever get an upload plugin working on TWiki.
Here's a quick hack to help follow Wikipedia links which are not local to the TiddlyWiki. Simply replace the defaultText with a link to the Wikipedia article of the same name. Put the following in your "settings" tiddler to get the idea. (For a production version, you would need to substitute '_' for spaces in the Tiddler name, %0.)