Creole (markup)

Creole is a lightweight markup language, aimed at being a common markup language for wikis, enabling and simplifying the transfer of content between different wiki engines.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Creole syntax examples
* 3 Support in engines
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## History

The idea was conceived during a workshop at the 2006 International Symposium on Wikis.[1][2] An EBNF grammar and XML interchange format for Creole have also been published.[3][4] Creole was designed by comparing major wiki engines and using the most common markup for a particular wikitext element. If no commonality was found, the wikitext of the dominant wiki engine MediaWiki was usually chosen.

On July 4, 2007, the version 1.0 (final)[5] of Creole was released, and a two-year development freeze was implemented to allow time for authors of wiki engines to adopt the new markup.

## Creole syntax examples

Emphasized text:

//emphasized// (e.g., italics)

**strongly emphasized** (e.g., bold)

Lists:

* Bullet list
* Second item
** Sub item

# Numbered list
# Second item
## Sub item

Links:

Link to wikipage
link text

Headings: (closing equals signs are optional)

= Extra-large heading
== Large heading
=== Medium heading
==== Small heading

Linebreaks:

Force\\linebreak

Horizontal Line:

-

Images:

{{Image.jpg|title}}

Tables:

|=  |= table |= header |
| a | table  | row     |
| b | table  | row     |

No markup:

{{{
This text will //not// be **formatted**.
}}}

## Support in engines

Creole 1.0 is the default syntax in Bitbucket wikis, which also support some Creole 1.0 additions.[6]

Creole 1.0 is one of the available markup languages for the online educational platform Moodle,[7] and the UML rendering software PlantUML.[8]

## References

1. ↑ Chuck Smith. "Wiki Creole Press Release". wikicreole.org. http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/WikiCreolePressRelease.
2. ↑ Sauer, Christoph; Chuck Smith; Tomas Benz (2007). "Wiki Creole: A Common Markup". ACM Press. pp. 131–142. http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/_publish/Sauer_WikiSym2007_WikiCreole.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
3. ↑ Martin Junghans; Dirk Riehle; Rama Gurram; Matthias Kaiser; Mario Lopes; Umit Yalcinalp (2007). "An EBNF grammar for Wiki Creole 1.0" (pdf). ACM SIGWEB Newsletter (Association for Computing Machinery) 2007 (Winter): 4. doi:10.1145/1324960.1324964. ISSN 1931-1745. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1324964. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
4. ↑ Martin Junghans; Dirk Riehle; Umit Yalcinalp (2007). "An XML interchange format for Wiki Creole 1.0" (PDF). ACM SIGWEB Newsletter (Association for Computing Machinery) 2007 (Winter): 4. doi:10.1145/1324960.1324965. ISSN 1931-1745. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1324965. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
5. ↑ "Creole 1.0". http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0.
6. ↑ "Special Support for Creole". https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/special-support-for-creole-222201156.html.
7. ↑ "Creole format - MoodleDocs". https://docs.moodle.org/34/en/Creole_format.
8. ↑ "Creole support in PlantUML". http://plantuml.com/creole.

## External links

* Creole 1.0 Homepage
* Creole 2.0 Discussion Homepage
* WikiSym 2006 Workshop: Wiki Markup Standard (archived web page)
* Demonstration of a downloadable JavaScript-powered editing tool for Creole 1.0

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* History
* Creole

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