Re: Guides are live in the wiki!

[Brian Guthrie <btguthrie@gmail.com>]

Looks good, Carlos!  Is this guide expected to replace the main one
that Ola started out with, or to supplement it?  Ditto on the "In
other languages" feature, which sounds cool.  Will try to contribute
in my spare moments.

I've never tried to do mass PDF conversions before, but I imagine you
could probably get away with it through some combination of Mac's
Print to PDF and Applescript pointed at a locally cached (crawled)
version of the wiki.

Cheers,

Brian

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Carlos Villela <cv@lixo.org> wrote:
> Howdy Iokers!
>
> I have wikified the Ioke Guide, and massaged it a little bit.
>
> If you have a few minutes, please hop over to
> http://ioke.org/wiki/index.php/Guide and help me fix any broken links
> and formatting that you find!
>
> I've been moving more "isolated" sections (like Iik, ISpec and DokGen)
> to their own pages, and linking to the main article with the
> {{main|XXX}} tag. There are a few more places where I'd like to do
> that too. Does that sound like a good idea?
>
> Also, at some point we're going to have to convert all the <pre> tags
> to <source lang="ioke"> ones, as soon as we get the geshi formatting
> going (thanks melwin! :) -- can you help me on that?
>
> Another thing is to de-personalize it: currently, it's written in the
> first voice (Ola taking to you, the reader), which isn't very
> encyclopedic. I understand this might border on the pedantic side, but
> please keep it in mind to convert any "I"s to "we"s as and when.
>
> An "export this whole thing to PDF so I can read while offline"
> feature would be very nice too. Does anyone know how to do that in
> MediaWiki, preferrably without installing plugins?
>
> Taking a note from all those "In popular culture" sections in
> Wikipedia, it might be fun to add a few "In other languages"
> sub-section to the code examples sprinkled throughout the guide. I'm
> thinking Ruby, Java and maybe JavaScript for the non-meta-meta-meta
> stuff, like objects, iteration and method calls, and Ruby, Lisp or
> Haskell for the mind-boggling bits (comprehensions, macros, messages
> and the like). Ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -cv
>