[Geany] Moving contents from newsletter.geany.org into the wiki?

Randy Kramer rhkramer at xxxxx
Sun Jun 5 10:57:50 UTC 2011


On Sunday 05 June 2011 04:20:25 am Frank Lanitz wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 17:32:21 -0700
> Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> > On a related topic, what if any useful HowTo, explanation, or
> > plugin review that is destined for the newsletter *must* (should)
> > be added to the wiki first.  Then the new content from the wiki can
> > be formatted into the newsletter proper (using proper markup, etc),
> > probably having a link/ref back from the newsletter to the wiki.
> > This way, the wiki is always benefiting from the relevant parts of
> > the newsletter and even if reading an old newsletter issue, the
> > current parts can be found on the wiki though links/refs embedded
> > in the newsletter.  Another benefit of this is that anyone can
> > potentially contribute stuff to the newsletter without worrying
> > about the markup/presentation of the newsletter.  This is best left
> > to specialists, IMO.
>
> Do I understand you correct, that newsletter should work more as some
> kind of teaser for HowTo articles? Somehow I like that idea.

I like Matthew's idea a lot, but I don't think what he described is 
quite like a teaser.  It is more like the wiki becomes the canonical 
location for the information disclosed in the newsletter.  

When I say it that way, it is more like the newsletter is the teaser for 
the wiki, but I wouldn't suggest that either.

IMO, the newsletter should contain good, complete (i.e., self-contained) 
articles on some subject.  The article should contain a link to a wiki 
page that is, at least at one point in time, the text of the article.

Potential newsletter articles might (well, I'd like to say should--there 
may be exceptions, perhaps due to deadline pressure) be posted on the 
wiki.  Others can review those potential articles and make or suggest 
improvements in the wiki way.  

(There might be a notice on the page saying either that the wiki page is 
proposed as a newsletter article (by the writer or someone else), or is 
anticipated to be (i.e., tentatively, at least, accepted as a 
newsletter article.)

When the article is published in the newsletter, there is a link to the 
wiki page.

After the newsletter article is posted, the page remains on the wiki and 
(in the wiki way) is corrected and updated as time goes by.  Also, 
after the article is published in the wiki, a notice is added to the 
page that says something to the effect that "this wiki page was the 
basis for the article published in the Geany newsletter of <date> under 
the title "<title>"".

It might be appropriate to do something like create an additional 
immutable page to serve as a permanent repository to the article, 
linked from the mutable page.  

(I.e., the link in the newsletter points to a mutable page, the mutable 
page points to the original text published in the newsletter on an 
immutable page.)

Randy Kramer



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