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). > 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.
