On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:17:43AM +1200, Chris Wood wrote:
Good points, all. Clearly I didn't think much before sending my reply ;/
#2 - you can linkto/reference old versions of a page, which are
guaranteed not
to change.good point - what's the syntax for this?
http://serveraddy.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=pagename&oldid=xxxxx
Unfortunately, the "oldid" isn't human readable, and current versions are not given IDs - the latter is bug 181 (http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181)
And the best, best thing possible would be if mediawiki was modular enough
that
more than one frontend for editing/publishing could be written in terms of
it -
that would save a lot of headaches when it comes to writing the wiki that
is a word
replacement and actually turns wiki content into publishing material
(PDFS, etc).
Would be nice... good luck finding someone to do the work...
well, I'm assuming by your response that mediawiki isn't that modularized.. ah well, it'll be harder. Getting someone to do the work won't be difficult since I'll probably be the one ending up doing most of the up front stuff.
Ed
( ps - but getting wikipedia to host the new sister project, and link it off the homepage might be something else. I have a static IP, but it unfortunately is not very stable, so I'd ultimately want to move it to a central location )