in reply to better wiki-like shortcuts.

I would like this too; it's a lot more convenient to write POD or wikitext than it is HTML. I try to avoid writing HTML as much as possible for this reason.

One difficulty is figuring out how to store the data however; does it convert to HTML after you create a node? Do you always have to edit in HTML after that? Is there an option to attempt to convert back to wikitext at some point?