RE: Hosting of the cookbook

On 2004-04-22 07:37:19 +0100 Anton van Straaten 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Speaking of which, does anyone have any good ideas for a
> Schematics domain name?

Domains based schematician and plt-?schematics are available.

> There's very little to learn. [...]

There are specific non-wiki concepts to learn.

> I think the point with TWiki is that some of the utter simplicity of
> ordinary wikis is traded off for greater ability to manage the 
> content.  I
> think you might find that TWiki actually addresses some of the 
> concerns
> you've raised.

I might, when I have time to penetrate the jargon, but how does this 
agree with the "wiki is lightweight" reasons?

> [...] The unresolved
> issues mainly relate to how to structure the coobook for both online
> viewing and other publishing formats.

...that is, how to actually use the entered data to produce what I 
thought was the desired output?

>>> My latest idea on this subject is in the topic
>>> AdminCookbookViews.
>> I can see the page, but how do I find other things in this category
>> (if that's the same as what Twiki calls a topic)?
> A topic is just a page with a wikiname. [...]

Why not call a page a page? Or does this split jargon arise because 
there are pages which aren't wiki pages?

> Not sure what you mean by "being fed back into the schematics 
> sources". Which 
> sources?

The CVS ones held on the schematics project site that this was seeded 
with.

> [...] What's our worst-case scenario?

At a guess: everything entered into the site needs to be rewritten in 
a format useful for producing a cookbook release and, unnoticed, 
no-one does that work while Evil Geniuses find some way to subvert the 
cookbook, replace recipes with useless-but-sensible-looking ones, 
introduce hard-to-remove spam and remove the old revisions.

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