Fiatjaf destroyed it by switching it from markdown to some shit called "asciidoc"
He also completely ignored me asking him not to do this when I was by far the most active contributor (hundreds of wiki entries were mine when it first reached 1000 wikis)
The wiki is one of the most important things Nostr has to offer to the world and Markdown is not a solid foundation for that. Markdown is garbage of the highest form.
I thought Asciidoc was going to be a solid foundation, but I'm more and more convinced it isn't either.
What do you think about switching to https://djot.net/?
this is coming from the pandoc guy so must be good 👀
It seems to fix all the problems I had with Markdown (the unnecessary complexity and ambiguity) and a ton of other problems I had no idea about, looks pretty good.
I think I read somewhere that his Djot parser is 8x faster than his Markdown parser.
Is it geographically neutral like markdown?
Is it automatically compatible with a large percentage of wikipedia articles like wikitext?
Is there some other advantage you pretend would make up for the flaw of missing both points above?
Yes, it is "geographically neutral", I don't know why you're so attached to this.
No, nothing is compatible with Wikipedia articles, not even Wikipedia itself. Wikitext is not a standard, it's not a format, it's a language, wikitext is hell. The only way to parse Wikipedia articles "correctly" is by using the same parser they use which is some cursed mix of JavaScript and PHP.
Markdown is not garbage and we need wikitext if we're not going back to markdown
