Now that emoji is popular everywhere, I gotta admit DokuWiki's old style smileys aren't looking so good. Time to bring those winks and smiles into the 21st century.
I've started putting together a plugin for inserting emoji. It supports emoticons, emoji names, and code points. Uses graphics from emojione.com which are CC by-sa.
It's still being tweaked. Future plans are to use the CDN and maybe even configurable graphics. And keep an eye out for syntax conflicts. For instance, it eats everything like :word: even if it's not an emoji name. The pattern would be huge otherwise.
Would be nice if the core considered changing the old smileys to emoji. Maybe even put them in headings.
Source code is at
https://github.com/ptbrown/dokuwiki-plugin-emoji