Creole is a lightweight markup language, aimed at being a common markup language for wikis, enabling and simplifying the transfer of content between different wiki engines.
The idea was conceived during a workshop at the 2006 International Symposium on Wikis.[1][2] An EBNF grammar and XML interchange format for Creole have also been published.[3][4] Creole was designed by comparing major wiki engines and using the most common markup for a particular wikitext element. If no commonality was found, the wikitext of the dominant wiki engine MediaWiki was usually chosen.
On July 4, 2007, the version 1.0 (final)[5] of Creole was released, and a two-year development freeze was implemented to allow time for authors of wiki engines to adopt the new markup.
Emphasized text:
//emphasized// (e.g., italics) **strongly emphasized** (e.g., bold)
Lists:
* Bullet list
* Second item
** Sub item
# Numbered list
# Second item
## Sub item
Links:
Link to [[wikipage]]
[[link_address|link text]]
Headings: (closing equals signs are optional)
= Extra-large heading == Large heading === Medium heading ==== Small heading
Linebreaks:
Force\\linebreak
Horizontal Line:
----
Images:
((Image.jpg|title))
Tables:
|= |= table |= header |
| a | table | row |
| b | table | row |
No markup:
(({
This text will //not// be **formatted**.
))}
Creole 1.0 is the default syntax in Bitbucket wikis, which also support some Creole 1.0 additions.[6]
Creole 1.0 is one of the available markup languages for the online educational platform Moodle,[7] and the UML rendering software PlantUML.[8]