[e-lang] Wiki?

[Mark S. Miller]

James Graves wrote:
> Whoops.  If this is what you're talking about:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

That is indeed what I had initially confused it with. But I understand now. 
Thanks.


>> The Haskell wiki is 
>> impressive. I notice that a login is required to edit.
> 
> I'm kind of torn about this.  On the one hand, allowing anonymous edits
> lowers further the barrier to entry, encouraging more people to edit.
> It also makes it easier to valdalize.
> 
> I'm thinking it would be best to allow anonymous edits (which are
> tracked by IP address anyway) at first, and perhaps consider disabling
> that later if it seems to be a problem.

All this sounds plausible. I leave it to your judgment.


> Works for me.  I've got a couple MediaWiki sites running for my company.
> Though I haven't done much about them lately.  Though I need to upgrade
> them anyway.
> 
>> What wiki does www.haskell.org use?
> 
> They're using MediaWiki...

Ok, let's use MediaWiki.


> There may be tools to help import HTML into the MediaWiki markup.  If
> you've got higher-level source (such as LaTeX) that may even better.

My thesis is in LaTex and a few relevant papers, but mostly we've got html.


> I haven't found many tools so far:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools#Import:_Conversion_from_other_formats

Not much there. It seems a bit strange that it's so hard to import html into 
wikis. ;)

A bit of web searching revealed
<http://search.cpan.org/~diberri/HTML-WikiConverter-MediaWiki-0.55/lib/HTML/WikiConverter/MediaWiki.pm>
Of course, I have no idea if it's any good.


>>> I could potentially host a wiki, ...
> OK, I'll try to get that going in the next couple weeks.

Wonderful!


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