Erik Moeller wrote:
On Mit, 2003-01-22 at 18:18, Pieter Suurmond wrote:
Wiki-server should be able to take care of this, I presume.... (I am an experienced CGI/C/C++ programmer but am not too familiar with python, perl, php, SQL-quering. etc... I don't know what you system- administrators all use to keep the wiki-servers up and running.....)
Pieter,
if you know C/C++, PHP should be a breeze to get into. We could really use experienced developers. Why not give it a try? You can find some useful info in the growing (still underdeveloped) http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_Wikipedia_hacker on meta.
BTW, do we want to build a public tasklist on meta where anyone can pick projects to work on? The SourceForge facilities are seriously underused, and it seems to me like a wiki is best for that kind of stuff.
Regards,
Erik - always pimpin' for new developers
FOKUS - Fraunhofer Insitute for Open Communication Systems Project BerliOS - http://www.berlios.de
Thanks for your reply Erik. Sounds stimuling, exciting... :-) I am going to have a look at ''How_to_become_a_Wikipedia_hacker''. As a matter of fact, I think *specifying* wiki-syntax is more important than *implementing* it. I regard myself not as a ''hacker'' any longer :-)... and I would like to rename that page to ''How_to_become_a_Wikipedia_developer''.
I also dislike the METAwiki-concept a bit. When a systems fails to describe itself in its' own terms (a recursive definition thus) it is not good: all METAwiki-people should come down to regular wiki in my opinion. I am afraid some people will soon start a metameta..... (Or am I just a bit 'paranoid'). Let's stop forking, let's unite!
I've got other weird ideas: Write a complete standalone Wiki-server in pure C. (not depending on any mySQL, PHP, Apache-webserver, etc.). Once a proper definition of Wiki-syntax and semantcs cristalizes, this could be done (I could do it). I already started to describe wikisyntax with use of (metasyntax) ISO-EBNF on one of the Dutch pages... Well, I'll keep in touch, going to read that 'hackers-page' now... Thanks, Pieter Suurmond