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I haven't really worked on the tor open wiki since starting to work on the NIP-54 wiki, so the NIP-54 switch to asciidoc kind of makes me want to switch my NIP-54 articles to wikitext (as the tor open wiki uses MediaWiki).

I was planning on making markdown and wikitext versions of all my articles, but then the nostr wikis started the switch to asciidoc and I had to pump out markdown articles as fast as I could to fight against that, and then the rumors about Digit got more terrifying and it got hard to function at all.

Markdown is still just better than wikitext though, and having markdown versions of articles avoids contributing to the "compatibility advantage" of wikitext. That was part of my motivation for wanting to do articles with both versions. I'm not really sure if it matters though, since markdown isn't perfect anyway and there could still be a better formatting standard someday. Maybe the ideal strategy is to try to accelerate development of a decentralized wiki by forcing wikitext into the NIP-54 database to try to force support for it, leaving future programmers with better tools to work on standardizing text formatting and converting everything to a new standard.

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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1y ago

I realized this morning I may have already posted these thoughts previously

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