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 the

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 the

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 page.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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), refactor

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 system

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 bunch of

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 clear

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 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 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

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

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 the body

Re: VimTips Wiki: New Direction

2007-03-06 Thread Tobias Pflug
: 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/TipsSandbox to see how it parsed tip #1. Looks good. Only comment I have is it might be better

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 seems

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

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 a mess. I

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. Commenting is

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 the

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

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 to be a

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 has

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 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

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

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

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. Anything

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%.