Re: Git Wiki improvements

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 14, 2008, 01:03 UTC
Message-ID: <200804140303.22624.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <60CC37BF5A3B73428D0BB9B6A26B9669019D95DA@yvrmail1.corp.navcan.ca>

[Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Pack, Dylan wrote:

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> Jakub Narebski wrote
>> On Mon, 14 April 2008, Pack, Dylan wrote: 
>>
>>> I've noticed to that the wiki gets mixed up if I use the GUI editor.
>>> Looks like I'm going to have the syntax after all of well.
> 
>> Unfortunately Git Wiki administrator (Petr Baudis, who also maintains 
>> git homepage), doesn't have much time to spend on configuring wiki,
>> and doesn't know well MoinMoin.  The problem seems to lie in the fact
>> that Wikipedia-like (or rather MediaWiki-like) syntax provided by
>> (I guess) media4moin plugin doesn't modify GUI editing.  This affect
>> mosts macros, which in default MoinMoin syntax are written as
>> e.g. [[BR]], while Wikipedia-like syntax uses e.g. {{BR}}.
> 
> Perhaps a move to wikidot.com would work? They have an awesome set up
> for wikis. I've tried them out and they are fast and always improving
> the wiki. We could even add google adsense on the wikidot site for
> money to be put into various git projects decided on by the
> developers. Not sure how much money though a git wiki site would make.

I'm not sure if it is a good idea. We would loose a bit control, and would have git homepage and git wiki in separate domains. On the other hand some of admin stuff would be passed to wiki hosting site. Bazaar-NG, Mercurial and Monotone (and also Emacs) have their own self hosted wikis.

Git homepage at git.or.cz (or git-scm.org), Git Wiki at git.or.cz/gitwiki and free git hosting at repo.or.cz are all provided by Petr 'Pasky' Baudis (thanks a lot, again!).

By the way, Git Wiki initially began as a "staging ground" for contents which would get incorporated into Git Homepage...

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Jakub Narebski
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