-----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 problems with html entities which Mediawiki doesn't seem to have. > 2. Multiple other wiki engines have been discussed, and the clear > favorite seems to be a site built on top of the Mediawiki > application. Yay! > 3. Of all of the sites that offer free wiki hosting using Mediawiki, > Wikibooks seems to be the most favored. > > Note: These are all my opinions based on what I've read. I hope to hear > from everyone that has a different perspective :) > We share the same opinions :-) > Ok, so based on my version of reality, I think that we should proceed with > the following actions: > > 0. I'll create the following page on the Vim Tips chapter of the Vim book > on Wikibooks (whew!): > * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_editor/Vim/TipsSandbox > 1. All of the people who wrote tip conversion scripts before should > update them so that the output format is "Wikipedia markup", not > "Google markup" I don't know much about Wikipedia stuff but I wrote a basic version.I'll appreciate any help to make it better. > * I apologize to the script writers for making them do more work. > Hopefully, the necessary changes to your scripts will be small. Well , considering the possible difficulties we were going to have with google wiki we actually need to thank you for the change > * Also, please note that I _don't_ think that anyone should > contribute a new script to this effort. We already have three very > capable scripts that can probably get the job done very well, so I don't > think that the effort would be worthwhile for anyone else. > 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.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_editor/Vim/TipsSandbox to see how it parsed tip #1. > 3. The vim community will come to a consensus on the best format for the > tips, and we will use the best script for the job. Any help is appreciated. > 4. Consensus achieved!!! > 5. We will automate the task of converting all of the tips. > 6. A group of wiki superusers will inspect 50 random tips and make sure > that they look good. > 7. The invisible hand of The Wiki will then gradually make our wonderful > collection of Vim tips even more awesome than they've ever been before! ;D > > So, what do you guys think? > Well I think it's a great decision. Ali - -- Ali Polatel (hawking) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://hawking.nonlogic.org/ gpg: F0186CA2 fp: 7110 01E2 F8B6 83A2 AC52 1D9F 986B 76E1 F018 6CA2 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF7MFVmGt24fAYbKIRAnulAKDxzHGcC9Oj205xe5xLlgu5oBurqwCg8UgJ NfGQRIdPJ94pC27CZfJb3DE= =8WqN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
