Do you wiki?

Just curious - anyone else here a Wikipedia editor?

I make corrections when I see mistakes, but I don't really add content. One time I went to the thermistor page and the first line said something like "purple monkey dishwasher fuzz fuzz fuzz." It was a ripoff from that one Simpsons episode.

Originally Posted by Sebastiani

Just curious - anyone else here a Wikipedia editor?

Currently doing a transfer of an a MVC style site in python using postgreSQL, ~7000 pages, into a MediaWiki site. Which considering I know virtually no python or PHP, it has been pretty entertaining.

I didn't know anything about MediaWiki either, before this, but it is pretty cool stuff. Last week they sent me to a Semantic MediaWiki workshop in Manhattan which was organized by the "semantic web" people in NYC (apparently they have 1600 members here -- go figure). The SMW gang are some bright ass Europeans IMO. They have not incorporated Semantic into wikipedia yet due to a lack of resources at wikipedia.

Basically this is a team of one effort*, so hey -- I know a lot about it. Well, more than yer average joe anyway. However, no, I ain't a Wikipedia editor. How do you earn that privilege?**

*keeps getting stalled over my head tho. I'll probably be at this for the rest of the year at this rate
** also I'm sorry for all that fuss trying to get libertarian references out of the Anarchism page

Originally Posted by Sebastiani

Just curious - anyone else here a Wikipedia editor?

Hell no!

Ouch, here's some interesting stuff that I guess is not so surprising, considering the parties involved: Right wing media organization Fox "News" wants to limit the public's access to real information by shutting Wikipedia down:

Wikimedia: 'Fox News's campaign against us is nonsense' | Media | guardian.co.uk
BBC News - Wikimedia pornography row deepens as Wales cedes rights

I added a new page some years back, but nothing else besides the occasional typo error correction.

I've added a small amount of new content (and I emphasize the word small), and made several corrections.

Well at Sony we had to maintain a developers wiki that was accessible from all corners of the company which mean the whole shebang: adding pages, editing, dealing with links, etc. Wikiformatting has been for me a fairly consistent source of colorful language...and today my new employer comes to me and says: Jeff we want you to add a page to the dev wiki about that tool you wrote...

sigh. If there was an editor (and no reason there shouldn't be; there are 1,001 HTML editors out there and I find writing raw HTML easier than Wikiformatting) I would like to see it..

I'm an editor of OSDev Wiki.

It's very difficult, because people there normally are very rant with us.

Originally Posted by jeffcobb

sigh. If there was an editor (and no reason there shouldn't be; there are 1,001 HTML editors out there and I find writing raw HTML easier than Wikiformatting) I would like to see it..

I think Sebastiani meant "editor" as in person with certain responsibilities. There are different styles of wiki syntax used by different wiki software, but I have never seen one as complex or long-winded as HTML (of course, it does not have to do much).

Eg, page link in Mediawiki format:

Code:

[[localpagename]]

in HTML

Code:

<a href="/localpagename>localpagename</a>

Of course, if you can't remember [[this]] then whatever you can remember will be easier...

In a word no. Thankfully I don't have to do this at work either.

Originally Posted by MK27

There are different styles of wiki syntax used by different wiki software, but I have never seen one as complex or long-winded as HTML (of course, it does not have to do much).

Eg, page link in Mediawiki format:

Code:

[[localpagename]]

in HTML

Code:

<a href="/localpagename>localpagename</a>

Of course, if you can't remember [[this]] then whatever you can remember will be easier...

I think that MediaWiki should change it for BBCode, that is a lot more used and very easy to understand, because it's much more HTML-Like.