[Nix-dev] Restructuring of the Wiki

[Kirill Elagin]

FTR just so that people don't get confused: GitHub's wiki is Gollum which I
mentioned.

Maybe it would be more handy to open an issue in nixpkgs for discussing
wiki engines?


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Кирилл Елагин


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:

> Just a very small comment:
> Different wiki systems have been proposed earlier (when we ha da spam
> problem). Two were important (to me):
>
> 1) http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/index.html (based on git), no login
>   required (I haven't had any spam yet) - and if it happens it would be
>   trivial to add non standard blockers
>
> 2) github's wiki
>
> Both have one big advantage:
> Because they can be managed via "git" they could be attached to nixpkgs
> version or you could have them on disk and edit them with your favorite
> text editor.
>
> Eg you could grep nixpkgs and the wiki in one go to replace names and so
> on.
>
> I do use the wiki to add content which probably should not be contained
> in the manual so that I don't have to tell people twice.
> Examples are: Introduction to hack-nix, how to find help, comparison of
> 'automatically updating sources' implementations and such.
>
> While "changing things" can be done easily - I somehow still fail to see
> which is the big problem you want to solve by your proposal.
>
> Marc Weber
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