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[Tom Berger <tom.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/9/16 Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sep 14, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
>
>> Hey, LaTeX is pretty cool. But that's besides the point;
>
> I agree with both points. :)
>
>> what is the
>> point is that practicall /all/ of the wiki content we have at Canonical
>> is in moin syntax. So I'm a bit surprised at the change to reST without
>> some consideration for standardization.
>
> This may be true, but dev.lp.net and help.lp.net are not (just) Canonical
> resources any more.  They are community resources, and Launchpad has heavy
> ties to the Python world obviously, so I don't think the use of reST on the
> public LP wikis is that surprising.

Note that just like ReST, Moin is quite popular in the Python world.
In fact, Moin is the most popular Python wiki and used by many
projects, while the only wiki that uses ReST is ZWiki, which I have
yet to spot in the wild.

I have absolutely no data to back this up (any ideas on how to get
some?) but I'm willing to bet that many more users out there are
familiar with Moin syntax than with ReST.