[e-lang] Convert Walnut to MediaWiki

[Mark Miller]

On 11/29/06, James Graves <ansible at xnet.com> wrote:
> Well, here's a question for you.  Do you want the wiki to be the main
> entry point for the erights.org website?  That's how they do it at
> haskell.org.

Yes, I think so.


> erights.org must continue to exist in some form, to host content that
> isn't PD, and for content (such as your thesis paper) that must be
> maintained in original form (for historical purposes, if nothing else).
>
> And, obviously, to host the distributions and stuff.

Agreed. Though we may find ways to move much of this into the wiki as well.


> But if you wanted, we could basically copy the top level page of
> erights.org, and start converting over everything from HTML to wiki markup.

I think that would be great!


> > The draft serialization paper may be the right first experiment in
> > collaboratively editing a draft paper towards publication. I wonder what the
> > proper attribution should be on a paper authored in this way?
>
> We can just look at the page history, and see who contributed.  Minor
> edits (if people properly mark them as such) probably don't need to be
> attributed.

Sounds good. In addition, the acknowledgments can thank all other
contributors, including anonymous ones.

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    Cheers,
    --MarkM