[Foundation-l] The Perl Wiki, or Perl-Wikipedia

geni geniice at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 21:24:21 UTC 2006


On 7/5/06, Eric R. Meyers <ermeyers at adelphia.net> wrote:
> If I came to "The Wrong Place" to discuss ideas with the Wikimedia experts,
> then please direct me to "The Right People" to talk to at Wikimedia.  I just
> see a very good parallel for the needs of "The Perl Wiki," as what Wikipedia
> has been doing for all of the topics under the sun.  Perl topics are just a
> subset of All topics.  There is no sense in doing something different and
> separate for the many varied topics in Perl, when Wikimedia has been coming
> up with fantastic solutions for encyclopedic information and all topics in
> general.  I don't know what can and can't be done yet, but I do know that
> Wikimedia is doing "The Right Stuff," so that is why I'm here willing to
> learn and discuss these integration problems, while personally risking
> looking like an idiot in public. :)
>
> Eric

Closest would be the wikibooks thing. Other than that you would be
looking to start a completely new project which is unlikely to work
too well.

-- 
geni



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