Re: really attracting developers

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:01:32 +0200, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:

> Mediawiki's markup is more similar to UseMod but sill different in  
> confusing ways.
So..? Wikipedia uses Mediawiki and I guess that makes it the more  
prominent wiki. From that point of view, UseMod or whatever else is  
different in confusing ways. Besides, there are even icons above the  
editing text field to help you format your text. I don't get why you so  
against this.

> I proposed integrating into one maintainable site instead of applications
> webmasters either can't modify (appdb) or are WCAG-hostile (mediawiki)
> while keeping the best aspects of the one that works (the in-sync API
> documentation).  One of the reasons to keep the site as it was at last
> major review (the mirrors) have died off anyway, as far as I know.
I don't see how Mediawiki would be WCAG-hostile, given that Wikipedia uses  
it. If you're referring to the captcha/logic puzzle test, this is just a  
minor hurdle.

By the way, the automatically generated API documentation will not be  
moved to the wiki or deprecated. The one in the wiki will be used for code  
snippets and other things and will link to the generated one,  
incorporating the best of both worlds :)