On 1/9/06, John Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As everyone has noticed during the "making Haskell more open" > discussion, MediaWiki was suggested as a better wiki technology for > haskell.org. Ashley Yakeley has generously installed MediaWiki and we > would like to migrate the main pages of haskell.org into this wiki. > The migration is not complete - only the front page is finished - but > I'd like to make this public now so that there's time for comments. > In the end, this will allow anyone to come in and fix up the main > haskell.org pages - the people, the projects, the help for beginners, > whatever you want. Olaf and I will then step back and let the > community work directly on the entire site without having to bother us > (a big advantage!). > > This will also impact the old Haskell wiki. Rather than try to > automatically convert the old wiki to the new one, we're going to ask > the community to come in and do this for us. In particular, the new > wiki is under the GNU FDL so the licenses are not necessarily > compatible. We will keep the two wikis going "side by side" for a > while but in the long term I hope all content migrates to MediaWiki > (we won't be deprecating the Trac stuff - this will stay as is). > I believe that MediaWiki is more professional looking and > has a nice separation of documentation and discussion that MoinMoin > lacks. I hope that this will result in better wiki content and a more > organized site. Moving content by hand will give us all a chance to > spruce up the existing content as it moves (and get rid of all the > ugly CamelCase page names!). > > I expect that it will take another week or so for the rest of the > haskell.org pages to move into the new wiki - at that point we'll > "flip the switch" and take down the old pages (but not the old wiki > yet) and change the main page to point into the MediaWiki. Content > that isn't being maintained by Olaf and I will stay as before although > I hope that more and more pages will move into the wiki and we won't > have to give out accounts to people on haskell.org just to host > projects. > > The new wiki isn't yet visible from the front page but you can find it > at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell > > For you style sheet gurus, the style sheet itself is also in the wiki > at > > http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/MediaWiki:Quiet.css > > If anyone wants to help move the main pages over, drop me an email and > I'll coordinate things. > > Feel free to start adding stuff to the new wiki. It won't be visible > to the outside world immediately but you can get it ready for the > switch over. > > This isn't a completely "done deal" - there is still time to object to > the whole thing or make suggestions. Nothing will be visible to the > outside world until we make the switch later. But I believe this will > result in a much better site and also make life a lot easier for Olaf > and I. (And I apologize to everyone that's asked for updates to > haskell.org recently - I've been avoiding them to concentrate on > this!). > > I'm sure some of the MediaWiki settings still need to be tweaked. > Send me mail if something in the configuration of MediaWiki needs to > be changed. > > A big thanks again to Ashley! >
Is there a way to typeset Haskell syntax yet? /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862 _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
