[Clipart] Good NEW developer task

[Jonathan Leighton]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 10:47 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 18:06 +0100, Jonathan Leighton wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 16:48 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > > There are so many things that mediawiki is great for like having an rss
> > > feed of recent changes, etc.
> > 
> > This would also be good because we could DISPLAY wiki content from the
> > DB in "normal" (OCAL-styled) pages without the edit buttons and stuff. I
> > think it's quite confusing that wiki pages linked from the main site
> > appear with a whole different look and feel, but with a DB we can just
> > pull it from there. Does that sound like a good idea? I could file a
> > bug...
> 
> Sounds like a lot more work. I think ppl. are savvy enough to know the
> diff. in page styles...we should style the wiki possibly to look more
> like the site, but I don't think we need to develop a bunch of code to
> reformat the wiki.

I wasn't really thinking short term, but I definitely disagree about
people being savvy enough. Inconsistencies tend to confuse people a lot.
Anyway, I was kinda hoping that it *wouldn't* be a whole lot of work --
I've never used MediaWiki but they must have some kinda templating or
something to make it easy. Perhaps I'll have a look at it one day when I
have some time to spare or something.
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Jonathan Leighton aka. Turnip
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