I am looking fro somebody to be a mainter of the wiki app and even fork it as necessary. Do you want to do it?
On May 29, 1:51 pm, Evgeny <evgeny.fad...@gmail.com> wrote: > sorry for multiple posting on this, but I do want to point out that > key in wiki success > is adoption by contributors. Beautiful markup is less important (and > probably won't be important > in the future at all) > > MW is ahead in adoption of all other wiki engines by a manyfold > margin. > It's markup has even greater lead, since other engines support it too > (e.g. ScrewTurn, written in C#). > > If web2py wiki supported widely recognized markup it would have easily > 10-fold > gain in the rate of adoption (vs. being based on a lesser known > markup). > > Such wiki would be especially successful if it seamlessly plugged > into an existing production MW database, or at least imported it > whole. > - it is probably not a small project to take on, but I hope someone > might > take this seriously. > > As for the linguistic advantages of reST over MW markup - deficiencies > of MW, if there are any, could be compensated by better wysiwyg > tools with a much better impact. > > markup only wiki's typically have < 1/100 ratio of writers/readers. > This limit is probably there because of the ratio of geeks to normal > people. > Regular folks won't learn any markup. > > Evgeny. > > On May 28, 7:23 pm, Jason Brower <encomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I would like to see that. > > Regards, > > Jason > > > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 14:00 -0700, mdipierro wrote: > > > It is actually very easy to change it (<10 lines of code I guess) and > > > the source is public. > > > perhaps next verion may have a configuration parameter > > > > On May 28, 3:23 pm, Evgeny <evgeny.fad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > i see. i think it might be a missed opportunity as such application > > > > could be very successful > > > > and would greatly popularize the platform. > > > > > imagine having web2py wiki being able to import MW database > > > > automatically. > > > > > lot's of people would give it a try as very many are frustrated by the > > > > clunkiness of MW design. > > > > > even if you have settled on reST, I hope somebody else will consider > > > > writing MW successor > > > > in web2py. > > > > > lastly - IMO - the future of wiki lies in wysiwyg tools, less in > > > > improving markup. > > > > this is because the key in wiki success is increasing ratio of writers/ > > > > readers and you'll get more > > > > writers if it's easy and more fun to add content. > > > > > Evgeny. > > > > > On May 28, 12:07 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > > > There was a long discussion about this and we settled on reST. > > > > > > Massimo > > > > > > On May 28, 1:46 pm, Evgeny <evgeny.fad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > does web2py wiki support mediawiki markup? > > > > > > > would be great - MW is probably most widely used because of the > > > > > > popularity of wikipedia. > > > > > > > I would gladly migrate to an engine written in python and would > > > > > > contribute some code with time. > > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > Evgeny. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
