David, On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:46 AM, David Haslam <[email protected]> wrote: > Did Greg Trihus or anyone else at the Dallas conference happen to mention the > http://www.dsmedia.org/blog/publishing-usfm-encoded-bible-translations-mobile-phones-instantly > USFMtag extension to Wikimedia servers?
During Greg's talk there was no mention of wiki pages. Then again, there is no interest in allowing wiki-style editing for a scripture work, so it's not really relevant to the people Pathway is trying to address. Paratext already includes very powerful features to allow group collaboration of scripture editing by leveraging the Mercurial library for file diffing, branching and merging back to the master copy on the translator's lead. Wikis are not very interesting for the work Wycliffe is doing in this area. Additionally I was only there on Tuesday. The conference extended from Friday through Tuesday, so it's possible someone else discussed wikis in a different discussion topic. > > This is being developed by a programmer in Indonesia connected with > http://www.dsmedia.org/ Distant Shores Media and the > http://www.dsmedia.org/blog/introducing-door43-mobile-portal Door43 portal . > > It would seem to me that there could be a useful synergy between USFMtag and > the Pathway project. I'm not sure what useful synergy there would be. Paratext and Pathway do not support anything remotely like the wiki-style of interactions, and neither does Paratext use MediaWiki syntax. > > And once it matures, might it be worthwhile to install this extension in the > server for our Developer's Wiki? I doubt it. Perhaps if we setup a second wiki for people who want to produce or create wiki-based Bibles, then it might be useful, but I doubt it would ever be useful on the Developer's Wiki. --Greg _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
