[Olsr-dev] website as wiki?

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

Hi Hans-Christoph,

Can be done just as well...
And it's probably easier.

a.


On May 3, 2012, at 1:38 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> 
> Actually, I just realized the olsr.org is currently a drupal site.  It should be possible to config a drupal site to behave a lot like a wiki.  basically, just let anyone create an account, then give all accounts the ability to edit pages.  That is probably less work than replacing things with media wiki.
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:13 AM, Henning Rogge wrote:
> 
>> I think moving to a wiki is a good idea, but we should use mediawiki.
>> Many people have already worked a bit with Wikipedia, so they are used
>> to its look and its syntax.
>> 
>> Henning
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 03:48, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>> <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Apr 5, 2012, at 6:22 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Apr 5, 2012, at 10:43 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any chance of getting at least parts of the olsr.org website as a wiki or something like that?  I would love to update the "Nightly Builds" and "olsr on android" as I am working.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Yup we could think of that.
>>>> The only thing I am worried about is who is going to transfer the legacy articles to any new site>?
>>> 
>>> I'd contribute some.  If you use a wiki that supports HTML (which is most of the good ones), then its mostly just copy-n-paste until someone wants to update a page.
>>> 
>>> There doesn't seem to be that many, plus they can stay in place as things are updated.  For example, if mediawiki is installed into olsr.org/wiki/ in the standard fashion, that leaves everything else untouched.
>>> 
>>> I'm a fan of pmwiki and mediawiki.  pmwiki is probably the simplest and most appropriate here.
>>> 
>>> .hc
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> For example, there are now nightly builds of Commotion Android olsrd branch, and the rapidly developing OLSR-Wifi-Tether Android app.
>>>> 
>>>> Nice!
>>>> Should definitely be included there.
>>>> 
>>>> a.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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