[Bioperl-l] wiki

[Ewan Birney]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jeffrey Chang wrote:

> Are there tools that will take a Wiki and package it up in another format,
> such as printable HTML or LaTeX?

Not that I know of. The Ensembl wiki, which I believe the bio* wiki is
built from has a "printable version" button, but I think that is more to
do with the Ensembl site.


It shouldn't be hard to write the parser. Knowing how to layout the pages
- now that is hard!



 > 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Johann Visagie wrote:
> 
> > richard sucgang phd on 2000-08-30 (Wed) at 16:20:15 -0500:
> > > 
> > > now, jason extols the virtues of wiki, but i have had some difficulty 
> > > locating the source website for installing wiki. Sounds great not 
> > > just for collaborative documentation, but one step away from 
> > > ubiquitous note taking for the wet lab side of things. I have been 
> > > experimenting with Userland Frontier/Manila as such a tool.
> > > 
> > > Could someone please point me the way to wiki-land?
> > 
> > Wiki is more a concept and a philosphy than a particular piece of software.
> > :-)  The one and only original WikiWikiWeb - which has been going for years -
> > can be found here:
> >   http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
> > 
> > Its purpose is the discussion of programming patterns, and it plays host to a
> > large and vibrant community.  One can absorb a lot of Wiki zen by just
> > browsing through WikiWikiWeb.
> > 
> > Of course, people have written clones of Wiki in just about every language
> > and environment you can think of.  A non-exhaustive list can be found here:
> >   http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiClones
> > 
> > I suppose everyone has his favourite Wiki clone.  Mine is ZWiki, since it is
> > a Zope product and thus integrates with the whole Zope environment, giving
> > you online collboration capabilities that extend far, far beyond just Wiki:
> >   http://joyful.com/zwiki
> > 
> > The original WikiWikiWeb is minimalist on purpose.  Some people, however,
> > feel it would be useful to extend Wiki with for example authentication,
> > revision control, indexing and searching, and so forth.  For a taste of a
> > possible Wiki future, see the WikiNG proposal which aims to create a
> > Wiki-like structure which may be more in line with the sort of collaboration
> > tool software developers may require:
> >   http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/WikiNG 
> > 
> > You (and I'm sure the others on the list as well) may also be interested in
> > an *extremely* interesting discussion of online scientific collaboration by
> > John Udell, which touches on Wiki and many other things:
> >   http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/Groupware/report.html
> > 
> > -- Johann
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