- From: TeXmacs <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: A wiki for TeXmacs?
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 23:39:03 +0100
Dear Giovanni,
My own take on this is that I lack time to follow all different tools
that we already have at our disposition, so I would prefer this to
be organized independently from myself.
Another thing is that we really need a native TeXmacs wiki and
collaborative authoring. I had running code for this about
15 years ago, but we always lacked a server that is guaranteed
to be always up. I intend to make this one of my main priorities
after TeXmacs 2.1. Maybe rent a server somewhere since
univerisities miserably fail to provide us with such a server.
Best wishes, --Joris
On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 06:21:03PM +0100, Giovanni Piredda wrote:
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Dear all,
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I think a wiki for TeXmacs, written in good part by users, could be helpful.
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There used to be one - still linked from
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http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/help/informal.en.html and saved on the
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"Internet Archive"
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(http://web.archive.org/web/20051107175054/alqua.com/tmresources/FrontPage);
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at the moment there is a wiki on GitHub, at
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https://github.com/texmacs/texmacs/wiki. I did not understand how to
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edit the GitHub wiki (as suggested here:
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http://forum.texmacs.cn/t/a-wiki-for-texmacs/71/2) but it might be
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through pull requests.
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A user-maintained TeXmacs wiki could be helpful for TeXmacs and
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therefore for all people that use it. Wiki topics relatively easy to
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write up are syntheses of good mailing-list answers - I am available
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to write some of them and this could become a FAQ.
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Another good use of the wiki would be in my opinion a collection of
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links to plugins written by people not on the development team. I
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got the idea from the DokuWiki website, here:
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https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugins and especially here:
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https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:plugins#publishing_a_plugin_on_dokuwikiorg;
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the software itself would be in other repositories, the wiki would
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contain links, descriptions and instructions. This would on one hand
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set the necessary distance between the software written by the
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development team and the user contributions (clear separation) and
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on the other hand would both show prospective users what is
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available and hopefully encourage current and prospective users to
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contribute more. Since uploads would not be permitted, this is
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probably quite safe and takes less work (maybe just very little) to
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manage.
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For the wiki itself, if the GitHub one is the one that the
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developers would like to have, I would suggest to
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- write up instructions on how to contribute
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- put a link to it from the texmacs.org website
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Another possibility is DokuWiki. On
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https://www.dokuwiki.org/faq:license#dokuwiki_software it says that
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it is released under the GPL so it is appropriate for a wiki on a
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free software project. I use it privately and it has been easy and
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quick to set up for my private use, maybe it will be easy to set it
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up for public use too (I do not know). Again IMO, it should be
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linked to from the texmacs.org website (it could be even part
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of texmacs.org, but maybe the designs do not fit together well).
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A debate on the wiki topic would be nice :-)
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Giovanni
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- A wiki for TeXmacs?, Giovanni Piredda, 11/04/2020
- Re: A wiki for TeXmacs?, TeXmacs, 11/06/2020
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