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> tables with multiline text in the cells Does mediawiki have calculated tables, tags, executable source blocks though? And, most importantly, just how suitab

> tables with multiline text in the cells Does mediawiki have calculated tables, tags, executable source blocks though? And, most importantly, just how suitable is it as plaintext, org's killer feature? Cause this doesn't look all that suitable to me: '''''bold & italic'''''.

throwaway81523 5y ago
> Does mediawiki have calculated tables, tags, executable source blocks though? Mediawiki has categories which are like tags, if I understand what you are asking. I'm fairly sure it can do calculated tables in principle, though I don't know of anyone using them. Basically you can connect table cells and other elements to browser javascript, like Org tables are connected to Emacs Lisp. It's very common in Wikipedia tables to implement sort-on-click. E.g., for a table of countries with populations, you can click on the country name header to sort alphabetically or reverse alphabetically, or on the population header to sort by increasing or decreasing. The sorting is done in the browser so it is near instant, no page reload or anything like that. I haven't seen that done in Org. Org isn't so great for plaintext use either. I don't know how you'd even do bold and italic. What messes it up for me is usually long url's that are collapsed inside brackets to make inline links. In unrendered form, the lines are unreadably long without annoying horizontal scrolling. Mediawiki's killer feature of course is in-browser multi-user editing with built-in version control. I do that with Org using emacs and git, but that is far nerdier.