Jonathan Chaffer wrote:

- He said it would be great if we had the ability to make a special syntax like double-brackets link automatically to Wikipedia. I briefly explained our filter system, and said that if he wanted we could knock out such a filter in an afternoon. Looking in contrib, it looks like interwiki.module can do this already; maybe it's just a matter of code review.

Aldon Hynes and I wrote interwiki.module specifically for this purpose. It can handle both single brackets and double brackets. Wikipedia's MediaWiki syntax uses both; double brackets are for internal links within Wikipedia, and single brackets are for external hyperlinks. There are other aspects of MediaWiki's simplified markup syntax that also might be worth emulating. For example, an asterisk at the beginning of a line translates into a <li> tag, with surrounding <ul> as needed. A pound sign translates into <li> with surrounding <ol>. And, list markup can be nested, e.g., *this item has three sub-items *#the first *#the second *#the third *this item has no sub-items *this item has two *#alpha *#beta Personally, I'd like to see a Drupal module version of the MediaWiki software, but creating it would require more programming skill than I possess. --Sheldon Rampton