Re: xemacs wiki

There's already:

http://www.emacswiki.org

Which is meant to cover emacs and xemacs...

Michael

Ben Wing wrote:
> has anyone considered implementing a wiki for xemacs?  i would STRONGLY like to
> see this done.  the idea of the wiki is that it provides a sort of structured
> web pages, where ANYONE can edit what's currently there.  this sounds impossible
> at first but in fact the entire wikipedia is managed this way, and it's just
> wonderful.  zsh has a wiki, something like zshwiki.org, and this should be our
> model when creating one.  zsh even uses sunsite.dk, like us, so we could
> basically just copy their setup.  finally you've got a central repository where
> anyone could make an entry concerning a patch of theirs, others could add
> comments about the patch, make updates, etc.  we always complain about losing
> information and are frustrated that valuable info in mailing lists just floats
> away into the archive and becomes invisible -- well, just create a wiki entry
> based on the important stuff in the mailing thread, and you can essentially
> continue the thread on the wiki itself ...  and then it's permanent, and
> organized in the right place.  the interface is extremely easy, no web
> programming needed (but you can put in links and other stuff as needed).
> 
> i think we TOTALLY need this.
> 
> adrian, or someone, would you be willing to set up something like this?  take a
> look at zshwiki.org.
> 
> again, anybody, take a look at www.zshwiki.org for an example of a wiki just
> started not long ago, of the sort that we would want.
> 
> also take a look at www.wikipedia.org for the HUGE wikipedia, with more than
> 170,000 entries added in only 2.8 years on every subject you can imagine.
> 
> once this is set up i'll certainly help "seed" the info.
> 
> ben
> 
> 


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