Pyfora, a place for python

[Duncan Booth]

"Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:

> Kee Nethery wrote:
>> My personal preference would be a link in each sub-paragraph in the
>> official documentation to a wiki page devoted to that specific aspect
>> of the Python language. A place were users could augment the
>> documentation by providing sample code and by expanding out the
>> documentation for those of us who don't live and breath Python in our
>> sleep. Real Python coders would not click on the user wiki links and
>> all of us newbies could communicate with each other. But until a
>> place like that exists, perhaps Pyfora will get us part way there.
> 
> This idea has been discussed before, and unfortunately not bore any
> fruits so far - one of the few places PHP is actually better than
> Python. So I'd love to see it happen.

One option would be to use Google sidewiki. That way we need no changes to 
the existing site and people can add comments on pages or individual 
paragraphs, phrases or words. It's up and running today.

However, so far as I know there isn't any easy way to find all sidewiki 
comments for a site: the APIs only allow you to retrieve comments for an 
individual page. (There's a sidewiki issue for this 
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=1493 ) If they 
address this issue then the site could include a ticker of recent comments.

Also of course some people may have objections to using sidewiki e.g. on 
privacy grounds.

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Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com