Re: RubySpec link-up with RubyDoc

>> I've not used MediaWiki, but my understanding is that is quite
>> a full-featured tool.    ...
>
> Full-featured is right...I'd love to see an equivalent in Ruby,
> but the MediaWiki guys have done a lot of great work. Too bad
> it's in PHP.

MW is a very well-developed and -supported piece of technology.
One problem with it, however, is that it is overwhelmingly aimed
at meeting the needs of Wikipedia.  So, if a proposed change has
any chance of interfering with that (or even fails to be relevant
to that need), it has little chance of getting in.

Also, there is (AFAIK) no good way to automagically load content
into MW.  I played with PyWikipediaBot (in truth, several months
ago) and found that it is slow and cumbersome to use.  If you're
thinking of loading pages with mechanically-generated text, it
might be worthwhile to find or hack up a replacement...

-r
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