Dear all,
as promised, the surprise:
<http://revolution.lexicall.org/codes/>
I was not happy with tikiwiki for managing code snippets. So, there
is now a new cms to host all the questions and answers about coding
issues that appear on this mailing list.
Features are:
* All posts of the last month already included in the website (more
than 400 pages already!)
* As announced, xtalk code colorization, for ease of reading.
* Taxonomy back end. Anybody familiar with the delicious way of
tagging your material will feel at home here. Each entry is tagged
with a few vocabulary terms that ensure very rapid localization of
the information you are after. All tags appear on the right handside
of the website. An interesting one to use is the "user level"
category which should allow beginner user to more rapidly find out
about the information that is relevant to them. New categories or new
terms can easily be added.
* For now, manual parsing, tagging, and editing guaranteeing quality
of classification and interest of the posts. For the ones ready to
help, I have a stack to help with rapid parsing of use-revolution
digests... more about this later. I am not 100% happy with this stack
yet.
* Powerful search feature. As powerful as google, but limited to this
website. Provides you contextual hints (what are the "categories"
that have some matching pages) as well as highlighting.
* Random tips on the top of the right page, to help you increase your
knowledge of runrev.
* RSS syndication... you can easily track any change made to the
website from your favorite RSS reader
* RSS aggregation... if you don't have a favorite RSS reader, you can
easily keep an eye on the RSS feed of some popular programming website.
* Voting feature. You find some information particularly
interesting... vote for it so that others make sure they don't miss it.
* User points. I use this website as an advanced scrapbook.
Information will be updated regularly as I would do it anyway for my
personal use. However, anybody is welcome to register and to ask for
a moderator status which would allow them to add posts, administer
aspects of the website or even add terms to the taxonomy. The quality
of the taxonomy-based tagging, for instance, would greatly benefits
from community participation. I have mentioned this feature to the
runrev team and there is perhaps (perhaps... that will be based on
evaluation after a few months of usage) a possibility for the most
active contributors to be rewarded.
A lot more is possible. You can check out the list of modules there:
<http://drupal.org/project/Modules> to know all modules that can be
attached to this cms.
How to use it.... use the use-revolution list to post emails and to
post replies to post. I had mentioned the <code type="xtalk"> earlier
on but in fact it doesn't make much of a difference if you use it or
not, so you don't really need to bother. If you want to comment about
something on the /codes website, best is to use the use-revolution
list to do so with a link to the page on the cms (it will then look
like <http://revolution.lexicall.org/codes/?q=node/410>). Like many
others, I prefer to have a single source of information to track.
It's all yours. Enjoy. Feedback welcome!!!
Marielle
PS. the website has some "slow moments" because of congestions on the
lexicall website or on my provider servers... best is then to wait
for 5 minutes and then try again. I intend to move to a more reliable
provider in a few weeks time.
PS2. the open stacks gallery has now been updated with the holiday
contributions. http://revolution.lexicall.org/stacks_education.php
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