New Wiki!

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Fri Oct 27 07:34:57 UTC 2006


Chris Messina wrote:
> On 10/26/06, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:
>> Chris Messina wrote:
>> > Well, we should pick something and stick with it. Wikipedia markup
>> > seems overly academic to me (not a surprise mind you). The hyphenated
>> > solution seems practical and won't look that odd as part of a URL
>> > string. I'm not that worried about it, but I prefer the hyphen
>> > solution.
>> >
>>
>> My thoughts:
>>   * Make the OpenID wiki be the main page at OpenID.net. Right now it's
>> just duplicating most of the content on the main site anyway.
>>   * Have jp.openid.net which then becomes a Japanese translation of the
>> *entire* OpenID site, because the OpenID site is now a mediawiki site.
>>   * Use inter-wiki links to bind the various language versions together.
> 
> That seems sound to me. I'm no expert Mediawiki user, only offering
> advice from what's worked before. Since I won't be doing any
> translating, I guess I'm not the user, so I'm very happy to defer to a
> higher authority or greater interest... or simply a better idea! ;)
> 

I should probably clarify that I don't know much about Mediawiki either.
I'm just basing this on what Wikipedia does, since their system seems to 
scale quite well!




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