From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J.H." Subject: Re: Git Wiki improvements Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:40:23 -0700 Message-ID: <1208137224.2867.110.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <60CC37BF5A3B73428D0BB9B6A26B9669019D95DA@yvrmail1.corp.navcan.ca> <200804140303.22624.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Pack, Dylan" , "Pack, Dylan" , git@vger.kernel.org, Petr Baudis To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 14 03:41:27 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JlDhC-0004wB-Qk for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:41:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753534AbYDNBki (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:40:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753540AbYDNBki (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:40:38 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:48541 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752907AbYDNBkh (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:40:37 -0400 Received: from [172.19.0.93] ([76.21.83.184]) (authenticated bits=0) by shards.monkeyblade.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3E1eSvx022511 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:40:29 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200804140303.22624.jnareb@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-3.fc8) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/6751/Sun Apr 13 13:15:49 2008 on shards.monkeyblade.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Depending on the level of customization your really looking for, you could always make a request to kernel.org to host the wiki ( already hosting ext4.wiki.kernel.org, btrfs.wiki.kernel.org, moin.wiki.kernel.org, etc) It's running a shared hosted version of mediawiki, however I know for a fact the admin doesn't want to do *too* much customization of the underlying wiki and doesn't have a lot of time to devote to it, he's good at keeping it running but the content / customization would need to be handled by a more dedicated person. - John 'Warthog9' Hawley On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 03:03 +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote: > [Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Petr Baudis ] > > Pack, Dylan wrote: > > Jakub Narebski wrote > >> On Mon, 14 April 2008, Pack, Dylan wrote: > >> > >>> I've noticed to that the wiki gets mixed up if I use the GUI editor. > >>> Looks like I'm going to have the syntax after all of well. > > > >> Unfortunately Git Wiki administrator (Petr Baudis, who also maintains > >> git homepage), doesn't have much time to spend on configuring wiki, > >> and doesn't know well MoinMoin. The problem seems to lie in the fact > >> that Wikipedia-like (or rather MediaWiki-like) syntax provided by > >> (I guess) media4moin plugin doesn't modify GUI editing. This affect > >> mosts macros, which in default MoinMoin syntax are written as > >> e.g. [[BR]], while Wikipedia-like syntax uses e.g. {{BR}}. > > > > Perhaps a move to wikidot.com would work? They have an awesome set up > > for wikis. I've tried them out and they are fast and always improving > > the wiki. We could even add google adsense on the wikidot site for > > money to be put into various git projects decided on by the > > developers. Not sure how much money though a git wiki site would make. > > I'm not sure if it is a good idea. We would loose a bit control, and > would have git homepage and git wiki in separate domains. On the other > hand some of admin stuff would be passed to wiki hosting site. > Bazaar-NG, Mercurial and Monotone (and also Emacs) have their own self > hosted wikis. > > Git homepage at git.or.cz (or git-scm.org), Git Wiki at > git.or.cz/gitwiki and free git hosting at repo.or.cz are all provided > by Petr 'Pasky' Baudis (thanks a lot, again!). > > By the way, Git Wiki initially began as a "staging ground" for contents > which would get incorporated into Git Homepage... >