Well, I in no ways am an expert, but AFAIK the system is PHP/SQL based, therefore I don't think it should be very hard to modify the upload/download system to include PDF or files of any other form for that matter. On 11/11/05, Till Mossakowski <till@informatik.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
I have also made nice experiences with MediaWiki/WikiPedia. However, I think while you can include images on MediaWiki pages, you cannot include documents (like ps or pdf) - these have to be external links. Of course, the possibility of including such documents would be a desirable feature for a system of Haskell documentation pages. Perhaps it is not too difficult to add this feature for a MediaWiki expert?
Till Mossakowski
Andrea Sassanelli wrote:
Sorry to intrude myslf like this in the conversation. First of all, let me present myself: My name is Andrea Sassanelli, and I'm Italian. I have just started studying Haskell at the UoEdinburgh this year, and immediatelly fell in love with it.
On a sidenote, the wikipedia does rely on moderators who review the changes, but common users are able to undo changes as well, and can therefore bring a maliciously messed up page back to it's origiinal state. Basically MediaWiki/WikiPedia rely on the assumption that there are more good folk than bad folk, and this (IMHO) should be even more true in the case of a relatvelly "medium/small-scale" thing like the Haskell Documentation (small compared to a whole encyclopedia, i mean).
Open documentation like this is definitelly a good idea to make the language docs not only more accessible, but also more user-friendly, and would surely give a positive image to the community as a whole.
I unfortunatelly am not suted (?yet?) to work on any usefull documentation, as I am a novice, but I think the system would work.
Andrea Sassanelli
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