On 27-Aug-09, at 8:43 PM, John Hunter wrote:
Hey this is great - - the relevant sections of the scipy website are written in ReST, I believe, so what would be most helpful would be a ReST document that has the content you submitted in html.
They aren't, yet -- they're written in whatever awful wiki dialect Moin uses. Though that will be changing shortly. I've put off announcing it to the list, but myself and a few others have been slowly converting all the useful (non-spam and non-personal page) content on the wiki to ReST, with the goal of moving the SciPy.org main page off of moin and onto Sphinx, and the Cookbook into pydocweb. You can take a look at the progress at http://github.com/dwf/rescued-scipy-wiki/ We'll certainly leave the current wiki intact for the time being, and there may be a fresh wiki instance (with CAPTCHAs to prevent the downward spiral we've seen within the current Moin instance) set up afterward, but it seems like the face of the community to the world ought to be one that is less of a mess, easily maintainable, and with comparatively little opportunity for vandalism. David