New Python.org website ?
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Jan 19 13:20:37 EST 2006
A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> > If I see this correctly, Fredrik would volonteer to (help) implement
> > something that imports the current python.org content into a Wiki.
>
> First question I have: which wiki? Does this go into the existing
> Python wiki, or into a fresh new wiki that contains *only*
> Python.org-destined content?
I'd prefer a separate wiki (at least initially). Do we have enough
admin resources to set up an 1.5 instance ?
> Second question: how do we maintain the sidebar links in a wiki?
> (i.e. the list of links in the blue sidebar on the existing
> www.python.org). These links vary from directory to directory on the
> site. In the file-based system, there's a file in every directory
> that lists the links, and an individual .ht file can supply its own
> list of links that's added in on top of the directory-wide links. One
> minor refinement: the link to the current page is greyed out in the
> sidebar.
The renderer/template engine can deal with that.
> Are there existing Wiki-based sites that do this sort of sidebar
> thing?
Probably; you can do a lot of stuff with plugins. But I'm not sure
that's really needed here; simply point to relevant sidebar pages
from a site map page, and let the renderer take care of the rest.
> > MoinMoin 1.5 sounds perfect for the wiki. It supports ReST if we want
> > that, and now also a JavaScript-GUI based WYSIWYG editor.
>
> Ah... sounds like it's time to upgrade the wiki software on python.org.
That would also be nice, of course.
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