[Haskell-cafe] Wikipedia article

Gwern Branwen gwern0 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 08:55:37 EST 2009


On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/12/4 Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>:
>> As noted before, the Wikipedia article for Haskell is a disorganised mess.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_%28programming_language%29
>>
>> earlier this year, dons suggested reorganising it and posted a template on
>> the Haskell wiki:
>>
>> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/WikipediaArticleDesign
>>
>> I've made a start on a new version of the page:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Simonmar/Haskell_%28programming_language%29
>>
>> I've kept most of the existing information, but reorganised it more or less
>> according to Don's template, and I filled out the overview section.  Also I
>> fixed numerous things, but the page still has a long way to go
>>
>> Does anyone mind if I spam the existing Haskell article with this new one,
>> or do people think we should continue editing the sandbox version until it's
>> in better shape?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>        Simon
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>
> Could someone please do something about the horrible syntax
> highlighting for strings in the Wikipedia article? Black on dark
> green, really?
>

Syntax highlighting on En for Haskell snippets is done, I believe,
through GeSHi: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
So complain to them?

-- 
gwern


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