Tom Purl summarized: > 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?
Sounds great to me. I'm still a bit worried about spammers, since that is what broke down the current tip collection. Perhaps someone can look into this, so that the scripts we use for conversion do the right thing? -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 258. When you want to see your girlfriend, you surf to her homepage. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org ///
