Perlmonks and wikiness are discussed in the
next posting.
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A wiki? What's a wiki?
A website where everyone can create and edit pages.
So you can create a page on some topic, and others can add to it.
To make this easier, there are
formatting shortcuts to reduce html clutter
(like paragraphs automagically get a <p>). And titles are
automagically linked - they OftenHaveThisForm so they can be regexped.
Though Perlmonks' square-brackets are also used.
Creating a wiki is an exercise in community building,
and takes time.
The philosophy is to make it very easy for people to contribute,
and allow the everyone together to improve and clean up the site.
Like the original vision of the web.
And like Perlmonks, but less structured.
- Take a look at a wiki
There are links to the Ruby, Python, and Lua sites in the root posting
(Tcl's... perhaps needs an editor).
Or here's
UseModWiki
and a
TWiki page.
Note that the pages have a diff version history at the bottom,
and a site-wide RecentChanges at the top.
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Two popular perl wiki implementations are
UseModWiki, and
TWiki.
There is a list here.
There is also
CGI::Wiki
on CPAN, but I don't know it's state.
Some existing perl-related wiki sites include
PerlDesignPatterns,
Inline,
and the just-getting-started "batkins built it, please come" TkWiki. ;)
- Ted Nelson(google)
coined the term hypertext,
and has been, well, puttering on it, for decades.
Has a big vision,
Xanadu, with fine grain linking, a money model, etc.
But it never seems to quite get built/used.
(There is a paragraph bio in the thread above).
- http://perlmonk.org/ (jcwren) can provide a home for
for worthy projects. Including wiki/twiki/kwikis.
And now on to Perlmonks wiki goodness...
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Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
