Re: We should get active / Wiki choice

[Susanne Ebrecht <miracee(at)miracee(dot)de>]

Magnus Hagander schrieb:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:10:34AM +0100, damien clochard wrote:
>   
> > On Thursday 28 February 2008 01:31:07 Jean-Paul Argudo wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi Josuah,
> > >
> > >       
> > > > FYI: www.postgresqldocs.org is running mediawiki from trunk on 8.3 with
> > > > the integrated tsearch. It works very well. If you chose this I would
> > > > be happy to help whoever sets it up with what I learned.
> > > >         
> > From my perspective mediawiki is a pain for anyone who'd like to translate an 
> > article. i might be wrong. If so, please just explain me how do i translate a 
> > page from www.postgresqldocs.org.
> >
> > for instance this page :
> > http://www.postgresqldocs.org/index.php/Slow_Count
> >
> > Afaik the only way to make translation easy with medawiki is to create a 
> > separate mediawiki instance for each language. Which sounds like a pretty bad 
> > idea in our case.
> >     
>
> I am no wiki expert by far, but it seems there is at least one extension
> for mediawiki to do this
> (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultiLanguageManager)
> I have no idea how it works thuogh.
>   

Hi all,

as I told some of you, my experiences with mediawiki are horrible. The 
encoding sucks, the search engine sucks and also the syntax for adding a 
table or something else is not really intuitive.

I am not sure, if the encoding and search engine depends on the database.

Also I can't see the need of a wiki for the European group at the moment.
For what do we need a wiki?
Isn't the mailing list, the IRC channel and static web presentation enough?

Susanne