cool idea. i liked the the map part most. can we try to add this on wikipedia?
thanks nasir On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov <[email protected]>wrote: > * Philip Neustrom <[email protected]> [Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:40:55 > -0800]: > > Realized I never sent an announcement here. I think you folks'd be > > really interested in checking out what we've been working on: > > > > http://localwiki.org > > > > We just did our first general-public software release. > > > > There's lots of cool stuff going on. Having worked on the DavisWiki > > (http://daviswiki.org) code for many, many years [which was a fork of > > MoinMoin], we really relished the opportunity to design a new, modern > > wiki engine without the burden of legacy support. > > > > Cool bits: > > > > * Everything is stored as HTML5. We threw out wiki markup. > I am not so sure that threwing out wiki markup is so good thing. It's > more compact (takes less storage space) and allows to format text quite > fast to everyone who is familiar to wiki markup. If you are using HTML5, > that means the extensions (parser functions) has to be implemented as > XML tags, which are quite tiresome to input directly, so the extensions > will probably require visual editor addons. Raw text editing simplifies > implementation of markup extensions, some developers might do not have > enough free time to develop their own visual editor extensions. That's > why raw wikitext can be useful and time-saving. > Dmitriy > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- *Nasir Khan Saikat <http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891>* _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
