Thanks for the good question, Ben.
I'm looking for volunteers. I'm
definitely not going to have time to
learn enough wiki stuff to put the
structure in place.
Once the structure is there, I would
put definitions in. But I'd prefer
for someone to volunteer to do that
as well -- I have one or two other
things in mind to do.
Pat
On 08/08/2010 21:27, Ben Bolker wrote:
So ... are you asking requesting commentary on whether this is a
good idea or not? (Seems so to me.) Asking for for help in porting
this/volunteers to port it? (I might help, but I also might not find
time. I would be happy if someone else volunteered ...)
I guess I'm as frustrated as (perhaps) all of the other wiki contributors
that it hasn't taken off, and that the primary source of information as well
as the primary sink of energy for answering questions remains the mailing
list. (Now Stackoverflow, Stackexchange, and various R blogs are also
competing for this energy ...)
I intended to make contributions to the wiki be a class activity, but I
never really got around to it. I still think that's a good idea.
Ben Bolker
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Patrick Burns<[email protected]> wrote:
The document 'Some hints for the R beginner'
is gradually becoming more complete and gradually
gaining momentum in terms of hits.
One of the more popular sub-pages is the jaRgon
page even though there is hardly anything on it.
I think the R-wiki is the place that such a list
should live. My vision is that for each word
there be a brief definition and then a link to a
wiki page for the word. A number of definitions
would be on the same page.
I think this could be the application that finally
gives the R-wiki the boost that it needs to fulfill
its promise. The people learning R from the 'hints'
document would come to think of the R-wiki as a
natural place to look for information.
The steps to do this are to create the structure
within the wiki for it, and then to populate the
definitions. The glossary from S Poetry should be
a good starting point. I'm also happy to donate
the jaRgon pun.
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