[Wikipedia-l] Re: Re: The Wikipedia file format

Thu Mar 13 23:11:53 UTC 2003

Richard Grevers wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:54:55 -0800, Toby Bartels 
> <toby+wikipedia at math.ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>> Karl Eichwalder wrote:
>>
>>> Magnus Manske writes:
>>
>>
>>>> Why not "*.wiki"?
>>>
>>
>> Simplicity!
>>
>>> There is more than one wiki and no file format matches the other.  
>>> Thus:
>>> "*.wikipedia".
>>
>>
>> I originally used "wiki markup language" (WML) on the grounds that
>> I wasn't going to distinguish between the different wiki markup 
>> languages.
>>
> But wouldn't most systems try and parse that as Wireless Markup Language?
> Are there actually any three-letter combinations left unused by Mime 
> types and software data formats?
>
Yes:  .wff for "wikipedia file format" seems not to be used by anyone 
else.  (And then there's the other meaning of wff for amusement's sake).

-- Neil