On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 13:06 -0500, Tom Purl wrote: > On Wed, May 9, 2007 11:37 am, Sebastian Menge wrote: > > First, im not sure about what you mean by a) "formatting standard" and > > b) a "script that supports the standard" > > > > is a) something like a template in mediawiki-speak? see: > > http://home.comcast.net/~gerisch/MediaWikiTemplates.html > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates > > By "formatting standard", I mean that we need to agree on how we want > the tips to look once they're converted and posted to the wiki. > Basically, what do we want the tips to look like so we can tweak the > conversion script (if necessary).
Put me down as voting for 'simplistic'. ie no fancy boxes/backgrounds just bold headings and maybe a splash of Vim green somewhere. (Man pages come to mind) > > > is b) something that reads the tips-db on vim.org and posts it to the > > wiki? > > Here, I'm referring to the script that will convert the scripts from > their current format to their future, wiki-fied format. We already have > 3 or 4 scripts that could do this. > > > Everything else is agreed and appreciated :-) > > Thanks! > > > Seb. > > > PS: When writing this mail I got my hands dirty on the scratchpad of > > wikia.com: > > http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/VimTest > > http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Tip > > > > PPS: There are extensions for mediawiki that could be useful: > > > > To supply a HTML-Form to submit a tip: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Inputbox > > > > To order a list of pages by "popularity" > > http://semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php/Manual > > > > Both are installed on wikia.org > > We do have a Wikia site available if we want it > (http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page). I agree with you; it has a lot > of nice features, and may give us a bit more flexibility than the > wikibooks option. I think we should revisit this topic once we're ready > to start the "real" conversion. > cheers, -- Mark
