[Mediawiki-l] RFC - Diderot WikiWriter Project - Pre-Release Announce

[Jamie Bliss]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:40:02 +0200, nospam at mussenbrock.de
<nospam at mussenbrock.de> wrote:
> 
> ### ANNOUNCE ### ANNOUNCE ### ANNOUNCE ### ANNOUNCE ###
> 
> The '''Diderot''' WikiWriter alpha is soon to be released.
> 
> '''Diderot''' is going to become the first full-featured, offline-online
> Wikipedia Editor with
> 
> * Source Coloring
> * Source Folding
> * integrated Browser Window
> * Category Browser
> * Asynchronous Put and Get of Wikipedia Pages (you don't have to wait
> until a page is saved)
> * Parallel Editing of Multiple Articles
> 
> In the future, we plan to add a variety of new features:
> 
> * Recent Change Agent with Notification Function, able to process RegEx
> * Search & Replace with RegEx
> * Integrated Watchlist with automated update
> * Automatic resolving of Redirects
> * and many other ... participate and submit a Feature Request on our
> Project Summary Page at http://wikiwriter.sourceforge.net!
> 
> On the Project Homepage at http://wikiwriter.sourceforge.net you can
> find some Screenshots.
> 
> The package will currently only run under WinXP, but in the future we
> will try to support unix platforms as well.
> 
> This will depend on volunteers to tackle some developement tasks.
> Any pythonists are welcome to participate.
> [clipped]

This sounds great! (I've been thinking about porting the parser code
to C++ for a similar effect)

> This announce is in some way a test on how many interest there is in
> such a tool. So please put your vote on
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dedicated Dedicated Wikipedia
> editor/Diderot.

The URL for that is
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dedicated_Wikipedia_editor/Diderot

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