It is an improvement, but to me it still has more of a "blog" feel than a wiki.
Most wiki will automatically create stub pages for key words referenced in an article. They don't usually have "comments" unless they are on a separate discussion page (like Wikipedia). The revision history and diff are key features of a wiki and are prominent and easy to access. I have no doubt that web2py can create a world-class wiki platform. I just wonder if that is where you want to focus your energies right now. It's going to take a long time and a lot of effort to duplicate the features of a wiki engine. If you grow more developers who understand the nuances of web2py, you can get more shoulders to push that wheel of progress instead of you having to do everything yourself. I visited the Ruby wiki which is done on Rails. It also feels more like a blog. I hit three errors in five minutes of browsing, including an application error for the "history" page and dead links on the front page. It gave me more of a feeling of, "I'm glad I don't use rails" instead of "gee this is cool." Would I help development? Sure, if I knew anything about web2py. I don't! I can scratch the surface, but any deeper and I'm lost. I am not alone in this. You track your membership numbers here, can you tell how many people come to the site and stay? There's your core. That's how many people are actually using web2py. We need to make web2py accessible to the masses and that takes documentation. I'm not sure another appliance development is the best way to achieve the goal of getting web2py to the masses. -- Joe B. P.S. Not to blow my horn, but I code for a living and have been developing in Smalltalk for 20 years. I also know Python pretty well. I'm a web site newbie, tho, and I still find web2py daunting to use. When I'm programming in web2py I keep open four windows -- the application I'm working on, the web2py manual PDF, a browser to this newsgroup, and a Komodo window open on the source. We need docs. Lots of docs! On Feb 25, 11:06 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > Point taken. Try this: > > https://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/wiki > > I can complete the TODO tasks tomorrow but before I do I could use > some usability tests. Does it feel more like a wiki? What is missing? > Want to help with development? > > Massimo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
