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04:06.13ringlejHi. Is this a forum I can ask questions regarding buildroot?
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20:13.55*** topic/#elinux by TimRiker -> Embedded Linux || http://eLinux.org/ || cross compile, uClibc, busybox, handhelds, post-sale linux installs ;-), etc. || free embedded linux training at http://free-electrons.com/news/news.2004-09-28/en || thoughts? http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/EmbeddedLinuxWiki
20:16.47TimRikerthoughts on the celf wiki article?
20:30.08CosmicPenguinTimRiker: I vote 1000 times for MediaWiki
20:40.58TimRikerCosmicPenguin: I don't like the MediaWiki "someone changed this page, go look to see the changes"
20:41.15TimRikerI very much like the moinmoin "here's the diff on the page" approach.
20:43.43TimRikerCosmicPenguin: what things about media wiki do you like over moinmoin?
21:08.42CosmicPenguinmediawiki has the diff stuff doo
21:08.51CosmicPenguinwe use mediawiki for OLPC, and I love it
21:11.02CosmicPenguinhttp://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Talk:Case_design&curid=1871&diff=13309&oldid=6789
21:11.12CosmicPenguinI think you're talking about something like that
21:11.41CosmicPenguinI like the "article" and "discussion" distinction too - it really encourages wiki style commenting without messing with the basic message
21:33.09TimRikerCosmicPenguin: no. I'm talking about the change notification emails not a web page.
21:33.18CosmicPenguinoh
21:33.28CosmicPenguinNot sure what to say about that - I use an RSS feed personally
21:33.31CosmicPenguinto monitor the changes
21:55.28TimRikerhow do you set which pages show up in your rss feed?
21:57.02CosmicPenguinMy RSS feed is the recent changes list
21:57.39TimRikerand does the rss feed give you 1) the reason for the edit 2) a diff of the changes 3) the email/contact that did the changes 4) a replyto: link for the contact that did the changes?
21:57.55TimRikerso you get ALL the recent changes? that's not acceptable.
21:58.29TimRikerI want to hear when someone edits these 20 pages, not when someone touches the other 2000 I don't care about.
21:59.11CosmicPenguinThat might be possible - I don't know
21:59.20CosmicPenguinmy wiki is small enough that I can ignore the cruft
21:59.36TimRikermoinmoin will send me an email on the pages I specify (by page, category, or regex match) with a diff of the changes, the date, and the editor.
21:59.45CosmicPenguinAs for 3) and 4) - that totally defeats the purpose of a wiki, IMHO
21:59.51CosmicPenguine-mail and wiki do not mix
22:00.59TimRikerso you're off line at 4am, and someone hacks up your prized page, then 2000 regular normal edits go by, and you get online again. you don't want to know that your prized page got hacked up?
22:01.01CosmicPenguinI dunno - people tend to be really millitant about their wikis
22:01.13CosmicPenguinI have a watchlist... :)
22:01.20TimRikerwhich does what exactly?
22:01.59CosmicPenguinAnyway, I'm sure there are reasonable fixes for all these - I can't imagine that the wikipedia admins go very long without inventing ways to help themselves
22:02.37CosmicPenguinof all the wiki's I've used, mediawiki comes out on top
22:02.41CosmicPenguinmoinmoin comes in second
22:02.45CosmicPenguintwiki is the worst wiki in the world
22:03.01CosmicPenguinthats all I know
22:03.14TimRikerI'll agree on twiki. but for me the order on is moinmoin on top with media 2nd.
22:03.51TimRikerI like moinmoin's categories and the diff in email. I have not seen any mediawiki that does those including wikipedia.
22:04.49TimRikerI like mediawiki's color schemes better than any that are included with moinmoin. however moinmoin kicks mediawiki's butt in useability. :)
22:05.13CosmicPenguinI don't agree
22:05.21TimRikercourse I dislike the "article" and "discussion" distinction. I think it's very un-wiki-ish.
22:05.40CosmicPenguinmoinmoin is better for publishing things
22:05.49CosmicPenguinmediawiki is better for evolving things
22:05.57TimRiker"let's talk about this document, but hide all of it so the random document reader does not participate in the discussion"
22:06.16CosmicPenguinof course, the wiki you are talking about is going to probably be more of a "publish" motif
22:06.31CosmicPenguinso most of the mediawiki features will go unused
22:06.48TimRikeryou mean the mis-feature of hiding any discussion?
22:07.06CosmicPenguinSo close the debate and use moinmoin already... :)
22:07.29CosmicPenguinI like moving the discussion - it keeps the content seperate from the stupid people
22:07.40TimRiker=) aw, that sounded like a cave. =) just debating the issue. I really am interested in your perspective. :)
22:07.54CosmicPenguinAnd the discussion is there, its just seperate
22:08.33CosmicPenguinI think with OLPC at least - the dicussion tab lets people ask questions and disent, while at the same time leaving the article less confusing for newbies
22:08.39TimRikerI just don't that I have to do more work (ie check the discussion page) so that the stupid people are not confused.
22:09.04CosmicPenguinI find the recently changed pages invaluable for that
22:09.16CosmicPenguinAnd I know wikipedia has more advanced features then we have enabled on OLPC
22:09.23CosmicPenguinof course, the OLPC community is maybe 20 people
22:09.30TimRikerI guess what I'd really like is "note" markup that is hidden unless you set your profile to "show notes"
22:10.09TimRikerso newbies see the clear page, but non-idiots can see the notes right next to what the note is commenting on.
22:10.30TimRikerer of course I meant non-newbies.
22:12.25TimRikercause another thing about the "discussion" page that I don't like is that you have to give the context for what part of the "article" you are talking about. if the note was right on that page, then that's obvious.
22:13.47CosmicPenguincan't argue with that logic
22:24.20[mbm]in moinmoin you can put comments in the source using the "##" prefix, it remains invisible in the final markup so you can do things like "## No, we don't support xyz and never will, stop editing this page"
22:25.08[mbm]not quite the same as mediawiki's talkback, but just as effective
22:27.55[mbm](an odd quirk of that is that the search feature will find things that are only in the comments and not in the final markup, leading to many confused newbies)
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