questions about markup: wiki vs blogs and tasks

[bobhaugen]

I'm finding a lot of discrepancies in markup between wikis vs blogs
and tasks.

By and large, blogs and tasks do better at following the reference
docs, especially with links but also with images.

I have a new project that wants wikis as well as blogs and tasks. I
want to settle on one reliable markup language and remove the
remainder.

So my questions are:

1. Is anybody else having this experience?

2. If so, where are issues, bugs, etc. reported to django-wikiapp?
The google code project says to do it on https://bugs.launchpad.net/django-wikiapp
- but as far as I can tell, no bugs have been reported there, and I
find "no bugs" difficult to believe.

3. And what do y'all recommend as the most reliable markup language
across the spectrum of wikis, blogs and tasks?

4. If none, what would it take to get wikis to use the same markup
parsing and formatting code as blogs and tasks?

[bobhaugen]

Followup:

What I have found so far:

Task detail markup handled hyperlinks and unordered lists according to
the documented references for all of the markup languages (Creole,
Markdown, RestructuredText and Textile).

Wikis handle unordered lists ok, but crap out on hyperlinks.

Blogs handle hyperlinks ok, but render unordered lists as the plain
markup source text and do not respect paragraphing.

Time to dig into the code (maybe tomorrow, but holidays will
intervene...)

[bobhaugen]

On Dec 22, 4:21 pm, bobhaugen <bob.hau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wikis handle unordered lists ok, but crap out on hyperlinks.

Curiously, markdown links in Cloud27 wiki articles fail when copied
and pasted to my pinax 0.7.1 social_project clone.

So either Cloud27 fixed something that was broken, or something broke
between the Cloud27 pinax version and 0.7.1, or something is broken
just in my clone.

(I tried another social_project clone with no customizations and the
problems remained.)

[grant neale]

Hi Bob,

Is Cloud27 based on 0.5? I know it was originally.

Grant

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[bobhaugen]

Another followup: since blogs and tasks use the same markup tag, the
difference is in the blog_item.html template, where it truncates the
blog.body. If I remove the truncation, the markup works fine.

Will post on code.pinaxproject.

On to wikis, which I may not have time to finish today.

On Dec 23, 5:07 am, grant neale <gne...@mac.com> wrote:
> Is Cloud27 based on 0.5? I know it was originally.

Don't know. But they created custom templates, and the blog problem
is in the template, not the markup formatting code.

[bobhaugen]

Last followup for now:

I posted the blog markup problem at
http://code.pinaxproject.com/tasks/task/558/

The simple fix is to use your own blog/post.html template which does
not truncate the body.

The wiki link markup bug has already been reported and patched at:
http://code.pinaxproject.com/tasks/task/483/

Unfortunately, the "fix" eliminates WikiLinks and requires explicit
markup links for them, too. A better fix would use markup links if a
markup language was specified and wikilinks if not (which I'll do in a
couple of days and will report on task/483 but not back here).

The end, as far as I am concerned.

[James Tauber]

On Dec 23, 2009, at 6:07 AM, grant neale wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> Is Cloud27 based on 0.5? I know it was originally.
>
> Grant

Actually, it's even pre-0.5. At some point (probably during 0.9 beta or something) we'll port it over.

James