[Haskell] Making Haskell more open

[Andrea Sassanelli]

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.

On 11/11/05, Till Mossakowski <till at informatik.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
>
> I have also made nice experiences with MediaWiki/WikiPedia.
> However, I think while you can include images on MediaWiki pages,
> you cannot include documents (like ps or pdf) - these have to be
> external links. Of course, the possibility of including such documents
> would be a desirable feature for a system of Haskell documentation
> pages. Perhaps it is not too difficult to add this feature for
> a MediaWiki expert?
>
> Till Mossakowski
>
> Andrea Sassanelli wrote:
> > Sorry to intrude myslf like this in the conversation.
> > First of all, let me present myself: My name is Andrea Sassanelli, and
> > I'm Italian. I have just started studying Haskell at the UoEdinburgh
> > this year, and immediatelly fell in love with it.
> >
> > On a sidenote, the wikipedia does rely on moderators who review the
> > changes, but common users are able to undo changes as well, and can
> > therefore bring a maliciously messed up page back to it's origiinal
> > state. Basically MediaWiki/WikiPedia rely on the assumption that there
> > are more good folk than bad folk, and this (IMHO) should be even more
> > true in the case of a relatvelly "medium/small-scale" thing like the
> > Haskell Documentation (small compared to a whole encyclopedia, i mean).
> >
> > Open documentation like this is definitelly a good idea to make the
> > language docs not only more accessible, but also more user-friendly, and
> > would surely give a positive image to the community as a whole.
> >
> > I unfortunatelly am not suted (?yet?) to work on any usefull
> > documentation, as I am a novice, but I think the system would work.
> >
> >
> > Andrea Sassanelli
> >
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