New Wiki!

[Chris Messina]

On 10/27/06, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:
> 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!

Well, premature optimization can be a pain as well -- and hard to
learn. Again, if Takatsugu wants to head up this effort, that'd be
great since I won't be the user. ;)

Chris