Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-13 Thread Martin Krischik
Am Dienstag 06 März 2007 schrieb Tobias Pflug: > If I might add my impression: > > Generally I think it is indeed quite likable. Just some thoughts : > > Looking at : > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_editor/Vim/TipsSandbox/Tip_1:_ >the_super_star Hello, The first thing I noticed it

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-13 Thread Martin Krischik
Am Dienstag 06 März 2007 schrieb Tobias Pflug: > If I might add my impression: > > Generally I think it is indeed quite likable. Just some thoughts : > > Looking at : > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_editor/Vim/TipsSandbox/Tip_1:_ >the_super_star Hello, The first thing I noticed it

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-12 Thread Preben Randhol
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:29:35 +0100 Tobias Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking at : > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_editor/Vim/TipsSandbox/Tip_1:_the_super_star > > my thoughts: > > 1. focus/structure: > > At the moment there is a bit of a lack of focus when I look at the

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Irofti
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:03:46AM +0100, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > John Beckett wrote: > >Brian McKee wrote: > >>One of the first things I was thinking about mirrors the above comments. > >>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:Learning_the_vi_editor/Vim/ > >>TipsSandbox/Tip_1:_the_super_star has a bun

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Irofti
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:39:23PM +1100, John Beckett wrote: > Paul Irofti wrote: > >Back-ups are better made on the server side. For mediawiki a regular > >sqldump (maybe added in crontab) is all that is necessary. > > Good. But can we actually do that? I thought we were planning > to use a syst

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-07 Thread hermitte
Hello, John Beckett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > > Moving the tip body to a wiki page and the comments to its talk page can > > (IIUC) be automated. /Then/ the tip author (or maintainer, etc.) can > > archive the talk page, remove empty comments (of the "great tip" kind),

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-07 Thread John Beckett
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Moving the tip body to a wiki page and the comments to its talk page can (IIUC) be automated. /Then/ the tip author (or maintainer, etc.) can archive the talk page, remove empty comments (of the "great tip" kind), refactor useful comments into the tip body, etc. My feeli

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-07 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
John Beckett wrote: Brian McKee wrote: One of the first things I was thinking about mirrors the above comments. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:Learning_the_vi_editor/Vim/ TipsSandbox/Tip_1:_the_super_star has a bunch of "thanks for the great tip!" type comments with more useage info inters

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-07 Thread John Beckett
Paul Irofti wrote: Back-ups are better made on the server side. For mediawiki a regular sqldump (maybe added in crontab) is all that is necessary. Good. But can we actually do that? I thought we were planning to use a system where we have no access to the server except via a wiki interface. Jo

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-07 Thread John Beckett
A few fundamental decisions need to be made so the conversion script can produce a result that minimises future effort. How will tips be found? Can there be a contents page? If so, the script should generate a suitable list, perhaps for hand-tweaking. Currently, the URL of the sample tip has for

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-07 Thread John Beckett
Brian McKee wrote: One of the first things I was thinking about mirrors the above comments. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:Learning_the_vi_editor/Vim/ TipsSandbox/Tip_1:_the_super_star has a bunch of "thanks for the great tip!" type comments with more useage info interspersed. I think th

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-07 Thread John Beckett
Denis Perelyubskiy wrote: why don't we discuss that here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:Learning_the_vi_editor/Vim/TipsSandbox/Tip_1:_the_super_star :-) You and I started talking on that discussion page. I just wanted to say (to everyone) that now I think all comments would be better made h

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Irofti
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:45:51PM +1100, John Beckett wrote: > Tom Purl wrote: > >I looked into the anti-spam features of Wikibooks, and they basically do > >the basics: blacklists for abusers and easy rollbacks. So the top 2% of > >spammers/vandalizers will be blocked, and it will be easy for th

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Denis Perelyubskiy
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:23:41 -0800, "Diwaker Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip] > IMHO, the best solution is to setup a blog. There are several free > Wordpress based blog services. There are several free Wordpress > plugins to implement rating for posts, most popular posts and such. > Comment

RE: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Hari Krishna Dara
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 at 12:34pm, Denis Perelyubskiy wrote: > > On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:31:53 -0700, "Steve Hall" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > From: Hari Krishna Dara, Tue, March 06, 2007 11:33 am > > > and if we can enforce a fixed style on commenting such that the > > > comments don't look like

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Diwaker Gupta
My apologies for barging in this discussion this late. However, I wanted to make sure all alternatives are being given a fair chance. It seems that wikibooks.org is the most popular choice. I just want to throw out a couple of other free, hosted Wiki alternatives for people to look at: o http://p

RE: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Denis Perelyubskiy
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:24:09 -0800, "Denis Perelyubskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip] > so, i propose we move to agreeing what the format should be. ..and after thinking about this a bit more: - format? - karma/rating (i think someone already brought it up). How do we do this here? The use se

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Tobias Pflug
h 2007 08:31 > > > Cc: Vim Mailing List > > > Subject: Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction > > > > > > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 03:18:13 +0200, Ali Polatel wrote: > > > > And check out > > > > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_editor/Vim/

RE: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Denis Perelyubskiy
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:00:30 -0600 (CST), "Tom Purl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, March 6, 2007 2:34 pm, Denis Perelyubskiy wrote: > > Finally, on the subject of converting the comments - it is entirely a > > manual process, that can not be automated. Comments need to be > > integrated into

RE: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Tom Purl
On Tue, March 6, 2007 2:34 pm, Denis Perelyubskiy wrote: > Finally, on the subject of converting the comments - it is entirely a > manual process, that can not be automated. Comments need to be > integrated into the body of the main tip (maybe the tip needs to be > adjusted, reworded, etc). We sh

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6-Mar-07, at 3:34 PM, Denis Perelyubskiy wrote: On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:31:53 -0700, "Steve Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: From: Hari Krishna Dara, Tue, March 06, 2007 11:33 am and if we can enforce a fixed style on commenting such that the c

RE: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Denis Perelyubskiy
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:31:53 -0700, "Steve Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > From: Hari Krishna Dara, Tue, March 06, 2007 11:33 am > > and if we can enforce a fixed style on commenting such that the > > comments don't look like a mess. I would imagine that one needs to > > edit the tip to add thei

RE: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Hall
From: Hari Krishna Dara, Tue, March 06, 2007 11:33 am > > My only concern is on how we are planning to support the existing > rating system going forward I don't see how this can be accomplished in a wiki, but on the plus side we'll be able to categorize and structure the tips better, as well as

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Hari Krishna Dara wrote: [...] I have been reading posts on this subject with interest and think that this is going to be a good decision. My only concern is on how we are planning to support the existing rating system going forward and if we can enforce a fixed style on commenting such that the

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Ali Polatel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Zdenek Sekera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Spencer Collyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 06 March 2007 08:31 > > Cc: Vim Mailing List > > Subject: Re: VimTips Wiki: New Di

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Hari Krishna Dara
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 at 1:26pm, Tom Purl wrote: > Here's my view of "where we are" regarding the Vim Tips wiki conversion > project: > > 1. The Google wiki seems to be a poor option due to the difficulty >involved in registering. > 2. Multiple other wiki engines have been discussed, and the cle

RE: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Zdenek Sekera
> -Original Message- > From: Spencer Collyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 March 2007 08:31 > Cc: Vim Mailing List > Subject: Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction > > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 03:18:13 +0200, Ali Polatel wrote: > > And check out >

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-05 Thread John Beckett
Tom Purl wrote: I looked into the anti-spam features of Wikibooks, and they basically do the basics: blacklists for abusers and easy rollbacks. So the top 2% of spammers/vandalizers will be blocked, and it will be easy for the admins to roll back the problems created by the outher 98%. Wikiboo

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-05 Thread Spencer Collyer
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 03:18:13 +0200, Ali Polatel wrote: > And check out > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_editor/Vim/TipsSandbox > to see how it parsed tip #1. Looks good. Only comment I have is it might be better if the 'By' and 'On' lines for the comments were on the same line. Anythi

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-05 Thread Tom Purl
>> Bram Mooleanaar summarized: >> >> I'm still a bit worried about spammers, since that is what broke down >> the current tip collection. Perhaps someone can look into this, so that >> the scripts we use for conversion do the right thing? > > I looked into the anti-spam features of Wikibooks, and

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-05 Thread Tom Purl
Ali Polatel said: >> 2. Convert one tip and post the output on the TipsSandbox page listed >>above. > > I converted vimtips.py , you can find it at google svn: > http://vimtips.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/scripts/vimtips.py > (at least we can still use svn right ;) > > And check out > http://en.w

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-05 Thread Tom Purl
> Bram Mooleanaar summarized: > > I'm still a bit worried about spammers, since that is what broke down > the current tip collection. Perhaps someone can look into this, so that > the scripts we use for conversion do the right thing? I looked into the anti-spam features of Wikibooks, and they bas

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-05 Thread Tom Purl
> Would you please give me an url or something so I may learn the > Wikipedia markup? :) Easier said than done. I've actually had problems finding a complete list in the past. Here's the best resource I could find: * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Markup Also, please note that there

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-05 Thread Ali Polatel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, * Tom Purl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Here's my view of "where we are" regarding the Vim Tips wiki conversion > project: > > 1. The Google wiki seems to be a poor option due to the difficulty >involved in registering. Yeah it also

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-05 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Tom Purl summarized: > Here's my view of "where we are" regarding the Vim Tips wiki conversion > project: > > 1. The Google wiki seems to be a poor option due to the difficulty >involved in registering. > 2. Multiple other wiki engines have been discussed, and the clear >favorite seems t

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-05 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5-Mar-07, at 2:26 PM, Tom Purl wrote: Here's my view of "where we are" regarding the Vim Tips wiki conversion project: {snippage} Seems about right to me Tom! 6. A group of wiki superusers will inspect 50 random tips and make sure that

VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-05 Thread Tom Purl
Here's my view of "where we are" regarding the Vim Tips wiki conversion project: 1. The Google wiki seems to be a poor option due to the difficulty involved in registering. 2. Multiple other wiki engines have been discussed, and the clear favorite seems to be a site built on top of the Media