[Gardeners] FAQ

[Peter Seibel]

On Dec 13, 2005, at 12:47 AM, Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:

> Benjamin Tovar <mugrido at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was thinking of about the FAQ Peter has proposed. I am
>> a newbie myself, so I thought it will be very didactic to
>> answer questions I do not have any idea :). Anyway,
>> following the friendliness we want in this forming
>> community, I thought that the FAQ should answer in a
>> friendly manner what may be considered as trolls in c.l.l.
>
> Probably, the Common Lisp wiki cliki.net is an already established  
> place
> where our community-driven editing can happen.
>
> When I have seen the front pages of
>
>  http://cliki.net and http://mcclim.cliki.net
>
> for the first time, I felt totally lost. I had no idea where I have to
> go to get the information I wanted. I resorted to the "click every  
> link
> you see" strategy and read pretty much of the entire wiki.
>
> If it's ok with the Wiki owners,
> (Hello Daniel, that's the reason why I cc'd you in this mail)
> I'd like to purpose a fair amount of wiki gardening. The wiki's  
> frontpages
> should not try to present all it content on the first page, but should
> guide the unsullid soul along different levels of detail (a bit like a
> Huffmann tree, most wanted stuff reachable quickly, infos about FFI a
> bit later).
>
> Also, we can probably see some feature changes of the wiki too.  
> Adding a
> "Discuss this page" shouldn't be hard. I'm not sure what's with more
> fancy CSS layout, but I think we can spice cliki up visually too.
>
> I volunteer to do wiki gardening work and making purposals for
> alternative wiki designs. Are any gardeners with me :) ?

I'd suggest you focus your efforts on the ALU wiki (http:// 
wiki.lisp.org/) as the Cliki has a somewhat narrower mission of  
discussion of Free and Open Source lisps. Dunno about anyone else but  
I think if we're interested in promoting the use of Lisp we should be  
fairly inclusive. (Which is not to say I think the Cliki, with it's  
focus is a bad idea--just that it's a different thing.)

-Peter

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