Linux.ie as a Wiki (was Re: [ILUG] AGM Annoucement)

[Justin Mason]

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Colm MacCarthaigh writes:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:56:00AM +0100, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> > Justin raises a good question, that's been discussed before. Should we 
> > turn the www.linux.ie website into a Wiki?
> 
> Web browsers make *terrible* editors. Justin pointed me at the mozex
> mozilla extension, but it doesn't seem to work :( 

nah, it does work.  its UI is a little odd though:

    1. right click on text-box
    2. select "mozex -> Edit Textarea"
    3. your favourite editor appears
    4. edit the text
    5. save and quit the editor
    6. click in the textbox and the text will change to what you
       wrote in the editor (this step is a little unintuitive!)

> If world-editable
> website content is desirable, a world-writable CVS or subversion tree
> would be a lot better imo :)

spoken like a true ASFer ;)   The "edit in browser" is a killer feature of
wikis, imo.  there's very little barrier to entry to edit a page that way.
By requiring someone check out a site using a tool that may not even
be installed on their OS, you're restricting editing to a tiny group
by comparison.

(In fact, we're having a bit of a tiff with some ASF people about getting
procedures documented on a wiki there instead of via CVS-accessible HTML
pages -- it's currently using the latter, and they're woefully out of
date, or nonexistent.)

- --j.
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