why isn't there a short / memorable url for the perl 5 and 6 wikis ?

Hi All,

I've been contributing to both the perl 5 and perl 6 wiki's, but find
that they are hardly linked to, the urls aren't exactly easy to
remember, and the inner community (let alone the diaspora) seems to
not know they exist.

Why can't we have a wiki.perl.org ?

You can always link to the perl 6 wiki from there (in fact we already do).

Andy - can we have an article on perlbuzz about the wiki - it is
growing, but slowly and I don't think many perl people outside of the
usual suspects even know of it's existence.

A.

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On 17/04/2008, Jim Brandt <cbrandt@buffalo.edu> wrote: 
>
>  http://perlfoundation.org/perl5
>  http://perlfoundation.org/perl6
>
>  both work, and they are fairly memorable, if not explicitly wiki-fied. We
> also have links on the perlfoundation.org home page.

It's a slight improvement on the full url, but not exactly obvious to
human or search engine that it's the or a wiki.

>  We could try to get links on the perl.org homepage. Any suggestions on wh
at
> category?

I'd guess that it would come under both documentation and support.

BUT..
most importantly : use a subdomain - wiki.perl.org

One would assume that anything on the perlfoundation site or under
it's domain name would be about or directly to do with the work of
TPF, I would think that the wiki is directly to do with perl the
language, and it's users, so more appropriate for perl.org

> Conference season is nearly on us, and that can be a good time to spread
> the word. I believe Schwern did a lightning talk at OSCON last year. Might
> be good to get folks to do lightning talks at the various upcoming events.
> BOFs are also a nice way to get people together and get them to actually
> edit something.

That will reach the usual suspects, really we need it to reach a wider
audience, and a good url will help do that, as well as linking to it
on perl websites, be they the ohloh page, or in perltoc or search.cpan
or wherever.

A.

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2008/4/17 Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>:
>
>  On Apr 17, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Aaron Trevena wrote:
> 
>
>  See, that's why we don't have an article about the wiki. :-)  If there's
> not much to say, then there's not much to say.

Then we can pick some arbitary milestone and make a story out of that
- there is next to nil mention or awareness of the perl 5 wiki, and a
story on perlbuzz highlighting both it and a short funky new
wiki.perl.org domain would be worthwhile. I think there are already
some highlights on it worth mentioning.

Milestone could be 1000 entries, 10000 revisions 100,000 words, 6
months of usage, anything.

A.

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On May 2, 2008, at 4:18 AM, Aaron Trevena wrote:

> Then we can pick some arbitary milestone and make a story out of that
> - there is next to nil mention or awareness of the perl 5 wiki, and a
> story on perlbuzz highlighting both it and a short funky new
> wiki.perl.org domain would be worthwhile. I think there are already
> some highlights on it worth mentioning.


Or for that matter, the new history page that people have been working
on.

http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?history

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