On Tuesday, January 6, 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jan, > > I saw that you edited the CWiki page so that my edits now show up. But I > can't tell what was done to make that happen. I can't see any way to edit > plaintext that turns into what the wiki presents. I am not sure what you mean....it looked like you had added mdtext codes, I removed the first couple and use the edit menu system instead. > > If the CWiki provides only a rich editor and it has no other provisions, > that is fine, except I would like to know how to find out about that. That > does not make this a wiki of course. It is some sort of content-management > mystery meat. I think googling confluence wiki might reveal some of the things you look fir. > > MediaWiki is my preference also. However, I can live with MoinMoin if it > makes Infrastructure support easier. I have no real preferences. Let the community decide within what is possible. E.g. wordpress is currently not a infra service. rgds jan i > > -----Original Message----- > From: jan i [mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;>] > Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 09:21 > To: [email protected] <javascript:;>; Dennis Hamilton > Subject: Re: The CWiki has Defeated Me > > On 6 January 2015 at 18:13, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > One of the new CWiki pages was simply an HTML dump and it presents as raw > > HTML. > > > > I attempted to convert this to Wiki text with no luck whatsoever. > > > I saw your commit, I am the one guilty of dumping HTML, simply so that we > did not loose it. > > > > > The Help button is useless. > > > > This is one of the worst excuses for a Wiki that I have ever encountered > > in my life. I am embarrassed to even mention it to my friend Ward > > Cunningham. > > > > I will not be touching this Wiki. I am not going to waste my time on this > > inscrutable product. Period. > > > > If we can obtain a WikiMedia wiki instance, I will be very happy to > > contribute to it. > > > Infra does not support WikiMedia, it is only AOO who uses this....but I am > pretty sure we can talk with AOO and get a corner. I am currently managing > the AOO servers and do not see a technical problem with this. > > > > > > If we can obtain a MoinMoin wiki instance, such as used by the incubator, > > I will be very happy to contribute to that too. > > > We asked for a cwiki, to be honest because none of us really knew the > difference....I am sure we can move to MoinMoin, I personally have no > preference (except WikiMedia, which I really like). > > > > > > I shall bite my tongue and end this note. > > > Your arguments are fair, so no need to bite your tongue ! > > Lets discuss what we want, and the make it happen, we have to live with the > wiki for many years, so lets make the best choice now where we have very > limited content. > > rgds > jan i. > > > > > > - Dennis > > > > > > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
