On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 at 1:26pm, Tom Purl wrote: > 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
I have been reading posts on this subject with interest and think that this is going to be a good decision. My only concern is on how we are planning to support the existing rating system going forward and if we can enforce a fixed style on commenting such that the comments don't look like a mess. I would imagine that one needs to edit the tip to add their comment at the end, but it will be nice if the comment itself happens as a discussion (which appears as a discussion tab on the same page). -- Thanks, Hari -- Thanks, Hari ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html
