"Simon Peyton-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Gour suggested using a Content Management System (e.g. Drupal > http://drupal.org/) for haskell.org's front page.
I'm not familiar with Drupal, but at least EZ publish allows users to convert pages to PDF - could be quite useful for documentation etc. > * There were suggestions of newsgroups and web forums. Different people > seem to like different things. That's ok -- maybe a good content > management system would support a lot of things, and people could > choose. I'm not sure you really want to integrate all information channels into one; you are likely to end up with the least common denominator. The GHC manual, the wiki, this list, and the IRC channel serve different purposes, and those purposes are best served through different media. > * Some people suggested using MediaWiki instead of MoinMoin for Hawiki. > I have no idea about the issues here. Maybe it's just a matter of > taste. Matter of taste, and ease of administration. While my tastes go in the MW direction, I'm also in favor of docracy -- the doers get to decide. My main problem with the wiki is the form of the pages. Many of them (in particular the newbie pages you wanted us to work on :-) seem to try to emulate web forums, consisting of a string of questions, answers, elaborations of answers, more questions etc, all signed by the contributor. On e.g. Wikipedia, articles are neutral pieces of text, and it's very easy to improve it in any way. In Hawiki, I feel there is a large degree of ownership attached to each paragraph, and it makes me a bit wary of modifying it. Is it okay if I rewrite the page? Should I keep the signatures? So while Wikipedia feels like a commons, Hawiki much less so, and the net result is more often than not that I just leave it. > * We don't have a plausible way of annotating GHC's user manual. One > suggestion is a tree of Wiki pages, each linked from the corresponding > section of the manual. One easy way would be to simply provide a link to a corresponding wiki page - as the wiki will let you create the page if it doesn't exist already. It would be nice to have some way of displaying whether there is any actual wiki content, of course, and perhaps one would like to have different kinds of associated materials (Q&A, examples, theoretical discourse, etc). -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
