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My organization is interested in migrating our local Wiki from the office into Google Sites. I see that Google Sites supports some sort of Wiki interface, but I don't really like the GUI editor. Is it possible to use Markdown syntax instead?

This is a Unix-heavy shop, with many Unix-heads and engineers. Many of us prefer the code-friendly wiki syntax provided by Markdown.

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Now that would be truly awesome ... Great question – Miro A. Jul 8 '10 at 19:48

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While I'm impressed that your organization would rather use Markdown than a WYSIWYG editor, I'm afraid that Google sites does not currently support Markdown syntax. You could write the text in Markdown locally using an editor like Textmate, and use a bundle or a script to convert that to HTML, and then paste the HTML into your site (Google Sites will let you add raw HTML to your sites -- inside certain form elements) but that feels like overkill.

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This is a National Lab, and nearly everyone here uses Unix, writes code or is very technical. I'm promoting my bias for a code-friendly Wiki ;) – Stefan Lasiewski Jul 1 '10 at 23:04
It would work for the first version, but how do you get back markdown from HTML ? Unless you keep 2 versions - local and online HTML, not very practical. – Miro A. Jul 8 '10 at 19:52
@Stefan -- indeed! Love that bias. @Miro -- indeed! Not very practical. – Michael Sippey Jul 10 '10 at 22:47
If you're willing to do some programming, you could perhaps integrate your Google Site with Google Drive. Create a folder in Google Drive that is designated as Site content, and give Site editors access to the folder. Then write a Google Apps script that imports the folder's contents to the Site (using the Sites API: developers.google.com/google-apps/sites/docs/1.0/…), while converting it from Markdown to HTML. This would allow editors to edit content locally (via Google Drive sync), with any text editor they want. – Vidar S. Ramdal Feb 25 at 11:28
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Might be worth checking out these:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/27175

Fluid app userscript, build to support Markdown in Highrise and Basecamp

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2531

Based on js-markdown and it enables you to convert Markdown formatted text to HTML in one single click.

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