> Perhaps it is time to cancel the experiment using a publishing system > for skolelinux.org, and go with something simpler? If I remember > correctly, someone decided to drop the CVS access system we had to > update the web pages to be able to > > - make it easier for non-technical people to contribute > > - make it easier to handle translations of the web pages. > > Neither of these have been accomplished as far as I know. > The German team uses a wiki, <URL:http://www.skolelinux.de/wiki/>, and > we also have a wiki available from Debian, > <URL:http://wiki.debian.net/DebianEdu>. Perhaps we should use a wiki > for skolelinux.org as well? > Personally, I want to be able to work offline on web pages, and > commit/upload them to the server when I get online, and I also want to > get an email with the diff of the documents whenever something is > changed on the web pages. I would also like to be _able_ to update > the web pages. Neither of these wishes are fulfilled on > skolelinux.org today. > Are there wikis around which work the way I want it to work? well, i'm not a raving fan, but mediawiki (of wikipedia fame) has served us ok at freegeek: http://wiki.freegeek.org with the perl module: WWW:MediaWiki::Client (a.k.a. mvs a.k.a. wix), you can get a (limited) cvs-like interface. i built a debian package of it with a very long perlish name, libwww-mediawiki-client-perl: http://llama.freegeek.org/~vagrant/debian/unstable and breifly documented how to use it: http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Www-mediawiki-client any pages i'm interested in, i download, and check for updates using: mvs up > Are there wikis available making it easy to administrate and handle > translations? i do not know how easily mediaiwiki handles translations, or if you can get email updates of changes. there is a page that lists the recentchanges quite simply: http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Special:Recentchanges live well, vagrant
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