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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:
> Dear all,
> 
> I think a wiki for TeXmacs, written in good part by users, could be helpful.
> 
> There used to be one - still linked from
> http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/help/informal.en.html and saved on the
> "Internet Archive" 
> (http://web.archive.org/web/20051107175054/alqua.com/tmresources/FrontPage);
> at the moment there is a wiki on GitHub, at
> https://github.com/texmacs/texmacs/wiki. I did not understand how to
> edit the GitHub wiki (as suggested here:
> http://forum.texmacs.cn/t/a-wiki-for-texmacs/71/2) but it might be
> through pull requests.
> 
> A user-maintained TeXmacs wiki could be helpful for TeXmacs and
> therefore for all people that use it. Wiki topics relatively easy to
> write up are syntheses of good mailing-list answers - I am available
> to write some of them and this could become a FAQ.
> 
> Another good use of the wiki would be in my opinion a collection of
> links to plugins written by people not on the development team. I
> got the idea from the DokuWiki website, here:
> https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugins and especially here: 
> https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:plugins#publishing_a_plugin_on_dokuwikiorg;
> the software itself would be in other repositories, the wiki would
> contain links, descriptions and instructions. This would on one hand
> set the necessary distance between the software written by the
> development team and the user contributions (clear separation) and
> on the other hand would both show prospective users what is
> available and hopefully encourage current and prospective users to
> contribute more. Since uploads would not be permitted, this is
> probably quite safe and takes less work (maybe just very little) to
> manage.
> 
> For the wiki itself, if the GitHub one is the one that the
> developers would like to have, I would suggest to
> 
> - write up instructions on how to contribute
> 
> - put a link to it from the texmacs.org website
> 
> Another possibility is DokuWiki. On
> https://www.dokuwiki.org/faq:license#dokuwiki_software it says that
> it is released under the GPL so it is appropriate for a wiki on a
> free software project. I use it privately and it has been easy and
> quick to set up for my private use, maybe it will be easy to set it
> up for public use too (I do not know). Again IMO, it should be
> linked to from the texmacs.org website (it could be even part
> of texmacs.org, but maybe the designs do not fit together well).
> 
> A debate on the wiki topic would be nice :-)
> 
> Giovanni
>