D wiki

[kraybourne]

On 11/13/12 20:28 , David Nadlinger wrote:
> The MediaWiki extension used by Wikipedia for syntax highlighting [1]
> also supports D.
>
> David
>
>
> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi

Good stuff!

I hope we go for something feature-rich and capable like MediaWiki. I've 
just browsed the Extensions library and here are some other interesting 
extensions:

- Bugzilla integration. Have a handy summary page showing Regressions, 
Blockers etc.?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bugzilla_Reports

- Link to Amazon books by ISBN. Easily link to books and also have 
partner links.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Amazon-Linker
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AmazonPartnerLink

- Revision Approval. Allow admins to mark a page rev. as "approved". 
Good for DIPs, Tutorials, Articles etc.?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Approved_Revs

- Rating. Allow users to rate pages.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticleRatings

- MarkAsHelpful. Allows a user to mark a resource as helpful.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MarkAsHelpful

- PDF Book. Gathers all pages in a category and renders them into a 
downloadable PDF. Imagine having all those D articles in a handy PDF.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Book

- Bucket voting. Allows a voting system where the user can distribute an 
allocated number of votes freely amongst a set of candidates. 
Bureaucracy galore.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BucketVoting

- Countdown. Shows JavaScript countdown to some date. DConf teaser etc.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Countdown

- Discussion. Allows to post comments on any page. Supports hierarchical 
structure of messages.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Discussion

- DoxyWiki. Integrates doxygen into MediaWiki.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DoxyWiki

- EmailToWiki. Allows emails and their attachments to be sent to a wiki 
as articles and uploaded files.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailToWiki

- EmbedVideo. For showing those D talks right in the wiki.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedVideo

- Freenode IRC Chat. We already have a chat channel on Freenode. Users 
who just want to check it out can do so right in the wiki.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Freenode_Chat

- GitHub. Allows adding github gists into your articles easily. Perhaps 
a D Cookbook backed by github?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GitHub

- Graph. Takes a textual graph description between <graph> </graph> tags 
and turns it into a pretty flowchart diagram. For finally explaining 
those ranges to mere mortals ; )
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph

- Math Formulas. We could finally formally show that ranges are insane 
too : P
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math

- MarkdownSyntax
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MarkdownSyntax

- Progress. Easy way to see the progress of several tasks.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Progress

- ShareThis. Provides links to popular social bookmarking and news sources.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis

- Terminology. Enable a Glossary or define Terminology within MediaWiki 
using tooltips. Imagine a beginner reading "..and this is very useful in 
CTFE and UFCS, but not with UDAs."
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Terminology

- TwitterFeed. Adds <twitterfeed> tag for displaying tweets.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TwitterFeed

- UML. Renders a UML model from text using MetaUML. A bit 2003 perhaps, 
but yeah.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UML

- UsenetSyntax. Allows simple Usenet highlighting such as *bold*, 
/italic/ and _underline_.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UsenetSyntax

- WhosOnline. Andrei and Walter can indulge in voyeurism.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WhosOnline

I also saw loads of spam-filters.

Full list at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix/AllExtensions


***

In my view, running a community should not be about what is the most 
convenient for a handful of authors, but what allows us to build the 
most useful and compelling community wiki. The wiki should not be a 
"handy notepad" easily accessible from the command-line, but a rich 
online information portal. Being able to present categorized and 
cross-linked information like upcoming events, latest Bugzilla bugs, 
DIPs with a threaded comment system, categories, table of contents, 
downloadable PDFs, approved tutorials, attached files, graphs, RSS-feeds 
etc., is very useful, if not now, then at least possibly at some point 
in time.

Heck, MediaWiki is rich enough that most of the dlang.org website could 
be run inside it. (Which is actually not an entirely bad idea imho. But 
I digress.)

MediaWiki (or something similar) for the win!

kind regards
/kraybourne

PS. Took a while to go through the Extensions. Re-checked the newsgroups 
now. Perhaps I'm already preaching to the choir at this point. Sorry for 
the noise in that case.