Re: xemacs wiki

I think one reason that Wikipedia works well is that it looks like
a regular web page to people, and when they try to edit something it
works in a fairly intuitive way.

Most wikis have straightforward markup, maybe allowing HTML for
advanced formatting but not requiring it; people seem to like this.

But instead of inventing a new syntax for links, they invented the
StrangeWordsThatMagicallyBecomeLinks.  This saves the trouble of
remembering the link syntax, but it makes pages harder to find and,
most importantly, it makes the output weird.  The Wikipedia dumped
this fairly early on in favor of [[explicit links]] using double
square brackets, and that seems to have been a good call.
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