creole is a wanna to be standard markup for all wikis. It's an agreement archived by many wiki engine developers. Currently MoinMoin and Oddmuse supports it. And a lot of wikis (dokuwiki, tiddlywiki, pmwiki. podwiki, etc) have partial support. More info on support: Some useful infomation: And there is a perl module: Text::WikiCreole Syntax file for vim: http://www.peter-hoffmann.com/code/vim/ (Since a typical ikiwiki user usually use external editors. :))