A couple of folks from the Perl Wiki, Luke and Audrey, dropped by. They seem like really nice people. Zbigniew, thanks for you recommendations on working with socialtext. This will save a lot of time.
It looks like a couple of my big ticket items are coming soon:
- wiki style links and
- syntax highlighting
Once these are available, I’ll start writing up the articles I’m interested in. I hope others will jump in too.
I was going to say something pithy, like blogging can make a difference, but that’s not right at all. I made a couple of observations and some folks stepped up to the plate. I’m cautiously optimistic about this.
I’ve been spending a bit of time hunting spam which, as with most wikis, is pretty easy. First of all, I check the What’s new link. Then anything that has been edited recently by someone I don’t recognise, I check and revert to a previous revision if necessary.
On the downside, I’ve missed the ironman schedule, dang it.
Note To Self
- Investigate wikirad and wikedit
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About wiki spam – if there is no commit message, or commit message is strange, it is probably spam.
Either I don’t know where to find them, or it seems like almost no-one leaves a comment on the Perl wiki.
I’m glad to report that both features are now live. :-)
See e.g. https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/stupid_command_line_tricks (a simple URL!) for an example of using the new Code blocks with Perl syntax, Bash syntax, as well as no highlighting.
Thanks again for your suggestion – keep them coming!