User:Martin Geisler
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Hallo, I am Martin Geisler, a fellow from Århus, Denmark who has been enjoying Wikipedia for a long time, but who has only now created an account here.
I like the idea of open content so much that I had been running my own wiki for a long time at my homepage, using PhpWiki. I've now switched to WordPress for blogging.
I'm studying computer science and have authored a couple of open source projects:
- PHP Exif Library (PEL) lets you both read and write Exif found in JPEG and TIFF images using just PHP,
- PhpWeather lets you display current weather conditions on your webpage. These are based on METAR reports collected from airports around the globe,
- PHP Shell gives you a more convenient way of using the builtin functionality of PHP to execute commands on a webserver.
Hmm... I've just rediscovered why I have been trying to write my own parser for wiki markup: every wiki-engine that I have used have such strange inconsistancies. Here in MediaWiki I can wrap my lines as I want when I'm writing a normal paragraph, but not when I'm writing in a list?! So one cannot have a list-item containing multiple paragraphs? That's just stupid.
I know that wiki markup isn't exactly something that one can easily fit into a context free grammar (it's probably impossible without restricting it in some major way), but I still think it is about time that some smart people get together and make a proper, consistant wiki parser.
