Here's my view of "where we are" regarding the Vim Tips wiki conversion
project:
1. The Google wiki seems to be a poor option due to the difficulty
involved in registering.
2. Multiple other wiki engines have been discussed, and the clear
favorite seems to be a site built on top of the Mediawiki
application.
3. Of all of the sites that offer free wiki hosting using Mediawiki,
Wikibooks seems to be the most favored.
Note: These are all my opinions based on what I've read. I hope to hear
from everyone that has a different perspective :)
Ok, so based on my version of reality, I think that we should proceed with
the following actions:
0. I'll create the following page on the Vim Tips chapter of the Vim book
on Wikibooks (whew!):
* http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_editor/Vim/TipsSandbox
1. All of the people who wrote tip conversion scripts before should
update them so that the output format is "Wikipedia markup", not
"Google markup"
* I apologize to the script writers for making them do more work.
Hopefully, the necessary changes to your scripts will be small.
* Also, please note that I _don't_ think that anyone should
contribute a new script to this effort. We already have three very
capable scripts that can probably get the job done very well, so I don't
think that the effort would be worthwhile for anyone else.
2. Convert one tip and post the output on the TipsSandbox page listed
above.
3. The vim community will come to a consensus on the best format for the
tips, and we will use the best script for the job.
4. Consensus achieved!!!
5. We will automate the task of converting all of the tips.
6. A group of wiki superusers will inspect 50 random tips and make sure
that they look good.
7. The invisible hand of The Wiki will then gradually make our wonderful
collection of Vim tips even more awesome than they've ever been before! ;D
So, what do you guys think?
Tom Purl
