discuss: TLDP wiki (was Re: status report author checkup)
Subject:
Re: TLDP wiki (was Re: status report author checkup)
From:
Martin Wheeler ####@####.####
Date:
13 Aug 2005 22:12:15 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0508132248550.4927@chaucer.startext.demon.co.uk>
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 ####@####.#### wrote:
> It sounds like jdd and Randy might be able to assist in getting
> this going - are there others (Martin)?
Yes -- you can count me in.
> - evaluate and recommend the best wiki technology for our/TLDP needs
I have no particular favourite.
however, I would suggest one that allows user login, in case we ever need
it for closed-editing group operation.
> - assist in the installation (answer questions I might have
> along the way, at the very least)
Usually just load and install. (zope is a whole other ball game; and I
would suggest just a tad too complex for what we're looking at here.)
> - assist in the overall design/layout
Wikis tend to be hierarchically rigid -- but then so do HOWTOs.
Creative use of hyperlinks is advised.
> - assist in the loading of the database
As long as we have remote access permissions to the host server.
> - eventually we will probably need a team to review and monitor(?)
Documents should be largely self-maintaining, overall.
> - anything else?
It'll show up. (E.g. what to do in the case of mixed British/US spelling
conventions, not to mention mid-Atlantic grammar and punctuation. Old
habits die hard, and I'm steeped in UK tradition. I go by the handbook
for readers at the Oxford University Press -- I've never even seen a copy
of the Chicago whatsit everyone's always quoting. [Or even citing.])
We've long needed a defined house-style -- maybe that's one of the things
that will distill out of collaborative wiki-work.
Cheers,
--
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