Wiki Sites
There seems to be some interest in setting up a collaborative site, but no-one seems to know how to go about doing it. One possible solution would be a Wiki (formerly WikiWiki) site. This was also mentioned some time ago, but, again, no-one seemed to know how to go about doing it. The good news is that my good friend Andy Bower has re- implemented a Wiki server to run part of the site supporting his Dolphin Smalltalk implementation (which is excellent by the way). His server is available as a perl script from: http://www.object-arts.com/wiki/html/Dolphin/DolphinWikiWeb.htm There are also some links on his site which point to background material on Wiki sites in general: http://www.object-arts.com/wiki/html/Dolphin/WikiWeb.htm Hope this is of use. Rob MacAulay Rob MacAulay Vulcan Asic___ email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] \|/ http : www.vulcanasic.com\ |###/ Tel +[44] 1763 247624 (direct) \ |##/ Tel +[44] 1763 248163 (office) \ |#/ Fax +[44] 1763 241291 \|/
RE: Wiki Sites
One possible solution would be a Wiki (formerly WikiWiki) site. This was also mentioned some time ago, but, again, no-one seemed to know how to go about doing it. It would be great to have a Haskell Wiki. As I understand it, to host a Haskell Wiki would require: a) providing a suitable Web server b) getting a Wiki implemenentation c) setting up the initial instructions and structure (front page, categories, FAQ, search pages..) d) performing some regular house-keeping to try to keep the structure comprehensible I believe that this is all fairly simple except perhaps (c), which I find hard to quantify. Would anyone like to volunteer to provide such a thing? John Peterson was going to look into it, but he's pretty busy, and I very much doubt he'd be in despair if someone else volunteered. You don't have to be a Haskell expert; indeed, it might be an advantage not to be. Mark Jones sent round a recent message about widening contributions to Haskell -- this might be a good way of doing so. Simon
Re: Wiki Sites
"Simon" == Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One possible solution would be a Wiki (formerly WikiWiki) site. This was also mentioned some time ago, but, again, no-one seemed to know how to go about doing it. Simon It would be great to have a Haskell Wiki. As I understand it, Simon to host a Haskell Wiki would require: Simon a) providing a suitable Web server AFAIK the widest selection of WikiClones can be had by running Apache. Simon b) getting a Wiki implemenentation There is a list of WikiClones at http://c2.com/cgi/wikibase?LongListOfWikiClones (incidentally, this is a wiki page itself ;-)) Someone might even want to volunteer to implement the WikiClone used for the Haskell Wiki in Haskell. Simon c) setting up the initial instructions and structure Simon (front page, categories, FAQ, search pages..) Simon d) performing some regular house-keeping to try to keep Simon the structure comprehensible Simon I believe that this is all fairly simple except perhaps (c), Simon which I find hard to quantify. d) and most of c) should mostly be done by the user/author community. Marko -- Marko Schütz[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~marko/
Re: Wiki Sites (now, haskell.org)
It's good to see so many people eager to help with haskell.org. We have plans for some significant changes at haskell.org and I hope this will result in a much more open, community developed site. Andy Gill and I had a meeting about this at OGI and we will have a new haskell.org online soon that will be administered jointly by all of the Haskell community. I'll be giving accounts to anyone interested in installing new software, creating new content, or just about anything else. We (well, actually mostly Andy ...) are developing a set of HTML forms that will interface with a bunch of XML databases. These forms will provide a very painless way for any users to submit new libraries, add new entries to the teaching page, locate people, help build a FAQ, and anything else we can think of. Once the new machine gets up and running I'll make an announcement to this forum and we can start getting more people on board. We're hoping to write all of the code that makes this happen in Haskell and also to use this code as an example of a real application in Haskell. Stay tuned ... John
