It isn't "wiki". Those are used in blogs, and I use Markdown for simple
HTML memos.

Don't use "x-", either. Register a real type.

wunder

--On March 7, 2006 5:51:42 PM +0100 Henry Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On 6 Mar 2006, at 18:54, James Tauber wrote:
>> Agreed that this would be very useful and also that it needs to be  
>> done
>> on a per wiki format basis.
> 
> Is there a forum a large number of them tend to hang out on, so that  one 
> could ask them to think about this? What would be the best to do  in the 
> meantime? Something like
> 
> text/x-wiki+textile
> text/x-wiki+markdown
> 
> perhaps?
> 
> 
>> I think, however, that this is something the format creators should be
>> encouraged to register, or at least suggest a convention for.
>> 
>> James
>> 
>> On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:59:10 -0800, "Walter Underwood"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>> 
>>> --On March 6, 2006 3:59:39 PM +0100 Henry Story  
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Silly question probably, but is there a wiki mime type?
>>>> I was thinking of "text/wiki" or "text/x-wiki" or something.
>>>> 
>>>> I want people to be able to edit their blogs in wiki format in  
>>>> BlogEd  and be able
>>>> to distinguish when they do that from when they enter  plain  
>>>> text, html or xhtml.
>>>> Perhaps this is also useful for the protocol.
>>> 
>>> It would be really useful, especially for feeds that archive the  
>>> content
>>> of a blog. It would be best to use the official names of the formats,
>>> like
>>> "text/markdown" or "text/textile". The wikis and blogs that I use  
>>> can be
>>> configured to accept different formats, so "text/wiki" doesn't work.
>>> 
>>> wunder
>>> --
>>> Walter Underwood
>>> Principal Software Architect, Autonomy
>>> 
>> -- 
>>   James Tauber               http://jtauber.com/
>>   journeyman of some    http://jtauber.com/blog/
> 
> 



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Walter Underwood
Principal Software Architect, Autonomy

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