Creole is a wiki markup language. The project, which has been brougth into being by the the people at the Wiki Markup Standard Workshop at the WikiSym2006, aims at creating a common markup language that enables or simplifies the transfer of content across different wikis. The goal was and is to "create a common markup that was not a standardization of an arbitrary existing markup, but rather a new markup language that was created out of the common elements of all existing engines." To achieve this, different existing wiki markups have been analyzed and the most commonly used elements have found their way into the specification.