6 | | Editing wiki text is easy, using any web browser and a simple [WikiFormatting formatting system], rather than more complex markup languages like HTML. The reasoning behind its design is that HTML, with its large collection of nestable tags, is too complicated to allow fast-paced editing, and distracts from the actual content of the pages. Note though that Trac also supports [wiki:WikiHtml HTML], [wiki:WikiRestructuredText reStructuredText] and [http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/ Textile] as alternative markup formats. |
| 6 | Editing wiki text is easy, using any web browser and a simple [WikiFormatting formatting system], rather than more complex markup languages like HTML. The reasoning behind its design is that HTML, with its large collection of nestable tags, is too complicated to allow fast-paced editing, and distracts from the actual content of the pages. Note though that Trac also supports [WikiHtml HTML], [WikiRestructuredText reStructuredText] and [http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/ Textile] as alternative markup formats. |
10 | | The wiki itself does not enforce any structure, but rather resembles a stack of empty sheets of paper, where you can organize information and documentation as you see fit, and later reorganize if necessary. |
| 10 | The wiki itself does not enforce any structure, but rather resembles a stack of empty sheets of paper, where you can organize information and documentation as you see fit, and later reorganize if necessary. |
| 11 | As contributing to a wiki is essentially building an hypertext, |
| 12 | general advices regarding HTML authoring apply here as well. |
| 13 | For example, the ''Style Guide for online hypertext'' explains how to think about the |
| 14 | [http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/Structure.html Overall structure of a work] |
| 15 | and how to organize information [http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/WithinDocument.html Within each document]. One of the most important advice is “make your HTML page such that you can read it even if you don't follow any links.” |