The "Quick Reference Dictionary" is actually a Wiki. You can add your
own comments to the bottom of the page, and (shhh!) also add new pages
by putting in an URL like
http://rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/wiki.r?wiki=[NEW PAGE NAME]
When you go into edit mode, there is also a help button with editing
hints.
To setup your own Wiki, see Andrew Grossman's script in the library.
(The HTML version is buggy, something when wrong when it was submitted,
but the .R script is fine.)
Incidentally, I had started to put together a specification for an
application like this before I had heard of a Wiki. There are some
notes about this at
http://husted.com/rebol-dev/
I'd welcome any suggestions anyone would have about the specification.
I'm thinking of opening up a project for this at SourceForge if anyone
is interested.
Before I discovered the other Wiki's, what I was thinking about is
something like the dmoz.org directory that leads to hypertext documents
rather than Web sites. If a person wanted to add a page to the
directory, they could select a link to bring up a form with the
appropriate fields. If the directory is a knowledge base about REBOL,
you might be able to go to the 'Series heading and post a document
there about immutable series.
Ideally, people should also be able to post quick "talk back" replies
to your document, and have those listed. They may also fill out a quick
form to have the document emailed to themselves or a friend. Someone
else might post a related article, and add a link between them ("see
also"). You might come back later and update the page, and also a
comment to the change history. Anyone who was interested might also
have subscribed to the page, and would recieve the updated copy by
email. They may also be interested in other documents you may have
posted, and could lookup your author profile for links to your other
articles.
Of course, the page could just as easily be a FAQ, a newspage, bug
report, script, list digest, or anything else.
None of this is new ground. There are examples of Web pages that do all
of these things, including some REBOL scripts in our library. I was
just thinking it would be useful to roll all these into an easy way to
create, updated, and organize pages like this into a structured
knowledge base. A key feature is being able to organize the pages as
well as submit and edit them, and also to be able to submit and edit
pages by email.
Here's a link to another interesting site along these lines:
http://crit.org/
-Ted.
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On 1/15/2000 at 11:03 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike wrote:
> Okay - I've just looked and can see no apparent link to a wiki -
where
would it be?
Sorry! The link I've been given requires a password!
Andrew Martin
Who's unsubscribed himself totally accidentally! :-\
ICQ: 26227169
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.xoom.com/AndrewMartin/
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