The Wiki way: quick collaboration on the Web
The Wiki way: quick collaboration on the Web
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Design principles of wiki: how can so little do so much?
Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Wikis
The Definitive ANTLR Reference: Building Domain-Specific Languages
The Definitive ANTLR Reference: Building Domain-Specific Languages
An EBNF grammar for Wiki Creole 1.0
ACM SIGWEB Newsletter
An XML interchange format for Wiki Creole 1.0
ACM SIGWEB Newsletter
Towards end-user programming with wikis
Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on End-user software engineering
Design and implementation of the Sweble Wikitext parser: unlocking the structured data of Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Design and implementation of wiki content transformations and refactorings
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
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Today's wiki engines are not interoperable. The rendering engine is tied to the processing tools which are tied to the wiki editors. This is an unfortunate consequence of the lack of rigorously specified standards. This paper discusses an EBNF-based grammar for Wiki Creole 1.0, a community standard for wiki markup, and demonstrates its benefits. Wiki Creole is being specified using prose, so our grammar revealed several categories of ambiguities, showing the value of a more formal approach to wiki markup specification. The formalization of Wiki Creole using a grammar shows performance problems that today's regular-expression-based wiki parsers might face when scaling up. We present an implementation of a wiki markup parser and demonstrate our test cases for validating Wiki Creole parsers. We view the work presented in this paper as an important step towards decoupling wiki rendering engines from processing tools and from editing tools by means of a precise and complete wiki markup specification. This decoupling layer will then allow innovation on these different parts to proceed independently and as is expected at a faster pace than before.