Re: Help with creating examples

I agree with the notion that this is pretty basic stuff that ought to be referenced from the main Pike site, however my sense is that a top down approach to community building doesn’t generally work very well. Even the wiki, which is about as low friction as you can get, hasn’t gotten a lot of traction. Though, after a quick check, it has 560 versions across 100 pages, so perhaps its gotten more traction than I realized. 

Nothing would prevent taking content generated in the wiki for use on the official website later, and it’s available for use right now. In my mind it’s better to get going and see if the idea goes anywhere before making it an official effort.

Also, gists might be an interesting way to go about it, but gists aren’t great for generating mixed content with code examples… has anyone written a pike syntax highlighter to html converter in pike?


> On Dec 9, 2016, at 8:58 AM, Pontus Östlund <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 9 dec. 2016 kl. 14:17 skrev Arie van Wingerden <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
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>> OK. I'll look there!
>> If I'd wish to start contributing, is there a kind of howto for wiki maintenance?
>> Thx
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> I would vote against that, at least intially. I think we need a more coherent way to solve this. 
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> My suggestion is that this should be held together to some extent by the official Pike site. Not that people can't or shouldn't do what ever they feel like, but this is something that should exist, at least some fundamental stuff, on the official Pike site. 
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> One idea is to have a page at the Pike site where a person could register a Gist for listing on the Pike site. I think it would be wise to encourage people to use Gist (or what ever similar is out there) for snippets and example, and then we can collect those on the Pike site. That's at least one way to do it.
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> # Pontus