On Friday 11 November 2005 13:56, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2005 12:27 schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones:
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* The GHC user manual [currently generated using DocBook]
I think it should continue to be written in DocBook. (It should switch to DocBook XML if it's still using SGML DocBook.) XML documents are "type-safe" in contrast to LaTeX documents, for example. XML is well supported. DocBook stresses logical markup and allows very specific markup and therefore supports conversion into different formats (HTML, PDF, ...) very well. Again, what do others think?
Yes. In fact I like the current GHC manual as it is.
How would we make sure it stayed organised? And avoid getting screwed up by malicious folk?
At Wikipedia, you can log in and modify content and you can modify content while not being logged in. In the first case, the history mentions your username, in the second case, it mentions your IP address. I think, MediaWiki can be configured so that only logged-in users are able to do modifications. As far as I can remember, I once saw a site using MediaWiki, which didn't allow modifications from non-registered users.
But honestly, would we need to protect ourselfs from malicious folk? At Wikipedia, they have problem with malicious people at a couple of articles, so they sometimes have to lock articles. (This tells us that article locking obviously is another feature of WikiMedia. As far as I know, this kind of locking can be done by different persons, not just one super user.) But who would want to screw up pages about Haskell?
Spambots are the worst problem, I guess. Ben