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| DATE | 2003-08-16 |
| FROM | Mike Richardson - NYLXS PRESIDENT
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Wiki (fwd)
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Comments please.
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:11:14 -0400
From: Ron Guerin
To: Mike Richardson
Subject: Wiki
You just popped into my head as someone who might be interested in Wiki
as a solution to some of your problems in producing the NYLXS Journal.
I'm using a few of them in my community projects and I think Wiki really
has a lot going for it. You could put one behind Apache authorization
and then I think it would be very suitable for your purposes. It lends
itself well not just to collaborative writing, but editing as well. You
have not just the finished product, but the entire change history (in
most Wikis) so you can see what was done, and often by who.
They're also primarily a creature of Perl. Ruben should approve! ;)
I just found out the other day that the Linux Documentation Project is
building a front-end publishing system (in Python/Zope) that will allow
people to work in WikiTextm, but then publish to DocBook (which then
means you can create anything you want from manpages to PDFs). Alas,
it's in Python, and it's not available yet, but there apparently is an
older version in Perl that might be of some interest to you. I saw a
Wiki to DocBook Perl module that was part of it. If you can get it to
DocBook, you should be able to generate the HTML version you put up on
the public site, and the Postscript you use for printing, using the Wiki
as the source document.
- Ron
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