[e-lang] Wiki?

[Dean Tribble]

This would be great.  A few recommendations:

- require trivial login's for posting.  With one-time cookies, this provides
a very minimal barrier to entry, and allows the system to tag contributions
by their author.  For any wiki with such specializaed content, I would
expect the reduction in participation to be minimal.  Also, with a
relatively small community, it's too easy to miss cleanups if anyone can
post.

- seed the registrations with login data for the e-lang list, no taht each
person gets a personal invitation and it starts with the same password.

- For all the current HTML content, stick a link on the website to go to a
corresponding wiki page for discussion.  Then we can extend current web
pages on the wiki, add commentary and discussion, etc.

On 11/19/06, Mark S. Miller <markm at cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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>
>      Cheers,
>      --MarkM
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