Ashar Voultoiz wrote: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:External_editors Basically, you associate a program (currently a perl script) with the application/x-external-editor MIME type. -- Jamie ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/ Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail! Have lots of invites. Gmail now has 2GB.

Ashar> Uwe Brauer wrote: Ashar> Talk pages are considered as one block of text and nothing Ashar> in the database store them as separate messages. Any new Ashar> modification can add several replies and even modify an Ashar> existing message. Looks a bit hard to Hm, I am new to wikipedia, but this sounds a little strange. Do I understand correctly that I could change an existing message? I thought like any free/open project wikipedia is under some sort of version control, because otherwise things could be easily lost. Ashar> implement that actually (need parsing, ability to changes Ashar> previous messages in nntp / cancel messages etc..). But you would agree that this form of communication (via email or pseudo email) would greatly improve the convenience? Also that seems to be a different topic, but right now there exit software for so called virtual campus (in order to present students a unified support for an academic course; WEBCT and its free counterparts like moodle) In this environment it is possible to have a sort of local mailing list for discussions between lecturer and students. May such an approach could be used for wikipedia? Ashar> In preferences: "Editing" > check "Use external editor by Ashar> default" , will send you the file for editing in whatever Ashar> editor. Not sure how it works exactly though ;) Ok that is of course another solution. I will try out. Thanks Uwe Brauer