[OWW-SC] quick question re: simple wiki?

[Sri Kosuri]

Not sure I understand exactly what you mean Drew (Do you mean parents or
plants?).  There currently is a barrier to use MediaWiki in that you have to
learn wiki text and familiarize yourself with the interface.   MediaWiki,
WikiPedia, and many in the OpenSource community understand this and are
developing next generation editing technologies (as mentioned, the WikiWyg
project is most developed http://www.wikiwyg.net ).  These editing
technologies is supposed to be increasingly WYSIWIG (What You See Is What
You Get).   You mentioned  that this wouldn't be sufficient Drew.  If this
is not what you mean, what specifically are the barriers besides making
editing more transparent?

There are a few things I could imagine that would help Bob Sauer help on the
wiki.  Streamlining the amount of information presented on any particular
page (instead of having mountains of links at the left and top, have drop
down lists that simplify presentation of what you can do).  We could also
integrate the extensions we use into the whatever method we use to edit,
whether that be WikiText or WYSIWIG (e.g., a pop-up box to cite a reference,
automatic naming given our conventions, et cetera).

Sri

On 7/19/06, Drew Endy <endy at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm looking for something that my plants could use.  Something really
> simple.  No markup language, wysiwyg, etc.
>
> Drew
>
>
> On Jul 19, 2006, at 1:46 PM, M. Yee wrote:
>
> >
> > Drew,
> >
> > Not sure if I understand the question. There's an option (in
> > Wikipedia at
> > least) to specify an external editor to edit text. So your favorite
> > editing application (emacs, vim, etc) can be used. Were you looking
> > for
> > something like the editors they have for programming languages like C
> > that'll highly open parentheses and whatnot?
> >
> > Mike Yee
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Drew Endy wrote:
> >
> >> James Anderson of NIGMS asked to inquire about improved text editing
> >> interfaces for use with wikis.  I.e., instead of our current
> >> wikimedia "edit" interface is there something that would more readily
> >> support text editing by folks like Graham Walker and Bob Sauer?
> >>
> >> I.e., what's the simplest editing interface for wiki-based text?
> >>
> >> Also, is there a person or group who is expert on this topic (either
> >> within OWW or not)?  Perhaps a team that is developing still simpler
> >> interfaces?
> >>
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