Re: xemacs wiki

hmm, what do people think?

my intention was to use it much more for collaborative development, containing
the sorts of info found on our web page, just more so ...

on the other hand it looks like there might be room for the both of us esp. if
we could convince them to buck rms and use "Emacs" to refer only to something
that would apply to both editors, and "GNU Emacs" for something specific to that
editor.  Well, I could just go change everything myself ...

comments?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Stephenson" <[email protected]>
To: "Ben Wing" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:14 AM
Subject: 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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