Hi Mr. Weber, On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:42:32 +0100 Marc Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
> great: > we all can contribute > > you should mention why you have chosen to start a new site rather than > using the existing wiki - and why you want to limit the "contributable > page" to "beginners". Which "contributable page"? In any case, while the wiki is a useful resource, as some people told me on IRC: <<< the vim wiki is a mess, the help is too hard to navigate for newcomers >>> Another problem with the wiki is that being hosted on Wikia, there are some intrusive ads by default. > > I've had the idea to start something similar, store all the contents in > a git repo all users can access and contribute to, which is that similar > to text that you can also read/grep/edit with vim. I store all the contents in a repository too - only in my case it is Mercurial and not git (Mercurial is a distributed version control system very similar to git). Perhaps I need to add a “Fork me on Bitbucket” strip like the shopworn “Fork my on GitHub one, but for now see: http://vim.begin-site.org/source/ > > Moreover the idea I had also included managing plugins by VCS repository > url - so that the www.vim.org implementation could be replaced one day. Interesting. > > If you're interested in those goals to I'll point you to our document to > which we've written our ideas (me and garbas that time). Sure, give us a link. It may provide some inspiration. > I don't think Vim needs yet another page - it needs one which can be > contributed to by users easily. Well, see: http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=perl-petdance-thousand-flowers Anyway, it shouldn't be hard for clueful users to contribute content directly to the Vim-Begin, though at the moment it will require some more mental effort than using a web browser interface. It is certainly easier than tweaking the source of http://perl-begin.org/contribute/ which has quite a few dependencies. > > However its only my personal opinion. > Your opinion still counts and it will provide some useful input. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "The Human Hacking Field Guide" - http://shlom.in/hhfg Real men don’t listen to sentences that start with “Real men don’t”. — http://whatsup.org.il/article/6023 Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
