[Mediawiki-l] What Wiki are we each working on?

[Monahon, Peter B.]

> Fred wrote: What a wonderful project ... I had 
> no idea you were doing such an admirable and 
> useful project ... I'll do everything I can to get 
> you up and running ... Now that you've "come 
> out", perhaps some the real experts will also 
> offer substantial help ...

"I don't get no respect" - Rodney Dangerfield

Peter Blaise responds:  Thanks, Fred.  I've "come out"?!?  =8^o  Funny,
but I shared all about what I'm doing in my original post that was
quashed by the list-serve admin!  Anyway, I'm walking the fine line here
at the "Office" between: not being given admin rights over my own
computer by the low muck-a-mucks around here (hence the USB flash drive
installation); and, the high muck-a-mucks asking "Where's the Wiki?
Have we got the Wiki running yet?"  (Note, I use the term "high
muck-a-muck" as the native North American Chinook jargon "hayo makamak",
meaning someone having "plenty to eat", or, well fed - no insult
intended ... I'm rather well-fed myself!)

> Fred wrote: I initiated and do the software on 
> Wikinfo, a fork of Wikipedia: http://wikinfo.org 
> Wikinfo offers alternatives for editors who feel 
> constricted by Wikipedia conventions ... We 
> had a good programmer, but he kept forking 
> the software (and throwing his weight around).
> I finally gave up on him and went back to the 
> standard version, but am having quite a bit of
> trouble, as I am being forced to learn way too
> much.  Fred

Thank you.  Great stuff in your wiki.  Wanna host a WorldLawWiki
(Wikilegalia?), starting with a United Stated Trademark Manual of
Examining Procedure and the supporting law, rules and citations?  

Here's unresolved challenge #437: I'm finding that opening up legal
citations (to referential court cases and decisions) as clickable links
is going to be quite an arduous research and design challenge!  Do we
really have to try to duplicate our in-house LexixNexis (the tools that
built the original citations) using no-charge tools so anyone without a
LexisNexis subscription can participate without compromise?  A
significant goal for our Wiki is to let people vet out the citations to
make sure they're appropriate, not just accurately quoted.  Manually
creating the links might take 3 1/2 months or more of one person's time
... or ... we could just let the general public build it themselves over
time.  Doh!  Why am I sweatin'!  Hey, I have a possible resolution to
unresolved challenge #437.  Next!

Are we having fun yet?

- Peter Blaise