Well, I in no ways am an expert, but AFAIK the system is PHP/SQL based, therefore I don't think it should be very hard to modify the upload/download system to include PDF or files of any other form for that matter.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/11/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Till Mossakowski</b> <<a href="mailto:till@informatik.uni-bremen.de">till@informatik.uni-bremen.de</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I have also made nice experiences with MediaWiki/WikiPedia.<br>However, I think while you can include images on MediaWiki pages,
<br>you cannot include documents (like ps or pdf) - these have to be<br>external links. Of course, the possibility of including such documents<br>would be a desirable feature for a system of Haskell documentation<br>pages. Perhaps it is not too difficult to add this feature for
<br>a MediaWiki expert?<br><br>Till Mossakowski<br><br>Andrea Sassanelli wrote:<br>> Sorry to intrude myslf like this in the conversation.<br>> First of all, let me present myself: My name is Andrea Sassanelli, and<br>
> I'm Italian. I have just started studying Haskell at the UoEdinburgh<br>> this year, and immediatelly fell in love with it.<br>><br>> On a sidenote, the wikipedia does rely on moderators who review the<br>> changes, but common users are able to undo changes as well, and can
<br>> therefore bring a maliciously messed up page back to it's origiinal<br>> state. Basically MediaWiki/WikiPedia rely on the assumption that there<br>> are more good folk than bad folk, and this (IMHO) should be even more
<br>> true in the case of a relatvelly "medium/small-scale" thing like the<br>> Haskell Documentation (small compared to a whole encyclopedia, i mean).<br>><br>> Open documentation like this is definitelly a good idea to make the
<br>> language docs not only more accessible, but also more user-friendly, and<br>> would surely give a positive image to the community as a whole.<br>><br>> I unfortunatelly am not suted (?yet?) to work on any usefull
<br>> documentation, as I am a novice, but I think the system would work.<br>><br>><br>> Andrea Sassanelli<br>><br>><br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>>
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