A WikiInterchangeFormat would provide an open and standard data format for sharing wiki pages between different sub-species of wiki, and generally for serving wiki page data to arbitrary client programs.

See:

• latest effort: http://www.wikisym.org/wiki/index.php/WSR_3
• MeatballWiki:WikiInterchangeFormat
• WikiWikiWeb:WikiInterchangeFormat
• No InterWiki reference defined in properties for Wiki called "OWiki"!

This opens up such a can of worms :-). It would be useful, though.

Anyway, note the cool InterWiki links we have. MeatballWiki and Ward's original wiki. :-)

--JanneJalkanen

Hey y'all. I've updated the MeatballWiki:WikiSyntax list with a view to move towards a MeatballWiki:WikiParserModel, and then a workable MeatballWiki:WikiInterchangeFormat (a MeatballWiki:WikiMarkupStandard is not a good idea). The TikiWiki guys are trying to put together an RFC for wiki markup for the IETF, so it looks like the pressure is on to finally do something. Please come over, add whatever you think is needed, like missing syntax, parser theory, algorithms, best practices, refactoring, etc. -- SunirShah