Karl Eichwalder wrote:
>Urs C Muff <umuff71(a)email.com> writes:
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>>I would like to collect a list of dev's that want to contribute to a
>>WYSIWYG effort for MediaWiki.
>>
>Why do you think WYSIWYG effort is useful? The current offering already
>does more harm than good. People adding [[weird]] [[links]] [[all]]
>[[the]] [[time]]...
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>
Well some people will just not be able to get comfortable with markup,
even thought the markup is designed to be human friendly it is still
markup. To open the application to more users a WYSIWYG editor will be
required (for us), and since this is open source and we are sharing
resources I would like to coordinate that effort. Of course if I'm the
only one interested, I will just do it my way...
- Urs
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales (jwales(a)wikia.com) [050201 07:13]:
> David Gerard wrote:
> > As Jimbo has said a couple of times (to me at the last London meet, and
> > reported at a previous meet), the best thing to do with a rating system at
> > the moment is ... nothing. Run the rating system for a time period, gather
> > the data, *don't reveal it yet* for fear of affecting the rating
> > experiment, *then* release the data for scrutiny and ideas. how people rate
> > things given a simple system, see if the results of that rating accord with
> > common sense, see if they approximate the desired Rating System That Scales
> > (the way FAC doesn't quite).
> Yes, perfect.
I asked on wikitech-l, and Magnus said his rating code is not (in his
opinion) ready for prime time yet. Anyone want to beat it into shape in
short order?
- d.
Salvete,
Got around to some maintenance and addition:
o Gnuplot and Graphviz support
o dvipng for dvi2bitmap
o multi-page output
I cleaned up the global namespace, Brion; and Gnuplot's
output is particularly pleasing:
http://wikisophia.org/wiki/Wikisophia:Sandbox#Plot
--
Peter Danenberg .
wikisophia.org ..:
Yes. Many , many and many good ideas just went away because there were
no enough resources to carry them on, no matter in academic
,industrial or even personal areas. And some of them are really
beneficial to human beings.
Thus, It is really good to have a centralized place to put those
immature, discontinued ideas and let any others to refine them and
realize them. All of the participants must agree to contribute their
ideas and efforts to the general public.
However, you got the point: we need a practical license for this type
of intellectual property. Mostly it contradicts the current patent
laws. Just like free software contradicts copyright. We need a
"Stallman" in this area too,.
My basic assumption here is: To a better future of human being, we
need share many more than just knowledge. Knowledge is just rice and
flour. There are many more important things we need to spread and pass
down: such as wisdom and good ideas.
Simply to know something does not help us too much, we need to find
good ideas about how to use these knowledge and produce something
brand new. I'd like to be a person knowing a little and produce
something rather than a person knowing a lot but produce nothing.
Best regards.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:00:45 +0000, Adam Moniz <envsci(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Share_your_ideas
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Share_your_ideas
>
> Hi,
>
> I was just about to make a new suggestion for a wikideas section then
> I found. This is exactly what I had in mind. I'd obviously be willing
> to put a little into it, I totally agree that one of the main peices
> of work is to modify the GPL to create an ideas licence rather than a
> software licence.
>
> I think wikideas is quite a catchy title and would suit this project.
>
> One of the main reasons I'd like such a project to exist is because I
> have many ideas I'd love to create wikis on in www.wikipedia.org but
> i'm not sure if they'd allow my wakcy theories to count as fact. I
> could even create a section on "Adam Moniz" :-P an autobiograhy that
> becomes a biography as more and more people who dislike me discover
> the page. :-)
>
> I believe wikideas is a very powerful proposition. This is because in
> order to contribute to the current academic system you have to be
> involved in research, but there appears to be many areas where
> individual thought on a mass scale could yield results, areas of
> philosophy and current affairs are good examples. It's difficult to
> explain why I think this would be the case. Good luck with this
> project and get in touch. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adam Moniz
>
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Be good....
Hi all,
I would like to collect a list of dev's that want to contribute to a
WYSIWYG effort for MediaWiki. Please contact me on or off list, and we
can talk about the options. If you are interested please have a look
that for following resources:
* Article on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor
* Article on c2.com: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WysiwygWiki
Your response is appreciated,
- Urs
NSK wrote:
>On Saturday 29 January 2005 20:59, Urs C Muff wrote:
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>>WYSIWYG effort for MediaWiki. Please contact me on or off list, and we
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>This wouldn't be compatible with all browsers (I'm having Konqie in mind),
>would it?
>
>
There are HTML area controls that are compatible with IE 5.5+ and
Mozilla/Gecko based browser (including FireFox). One of the compatible
and open source once is http://www.htmlarea.com. But that is mentioned
in the original links I sent around.
- Urs
