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On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 10:31:20PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 1:39 PM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > All, |
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> > some of us have talked about this on IRC off and on, but I want to bring |
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> > it up here as well. |
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> > I don't care that we have a wiki, but can we please look into killing |
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> > mediawiki and look at something with a git backend? It would be very |
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> > nice to be able to edit wiki pages in markdown or another similar format |
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> > and use git to control the changes instead of editing in a browser. |
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> I assume that your primary reason for wanting to replace mediawiki is |
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> to improve accessibility. I suggest you state that more clearly when |
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> making such a proposal. |
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Everyone would benefit, so it isn't specifically tied to that. I see it |
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more tied to universal design, which accessibility is a part of. |
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If you want to edit with a browser like you do now, you would be able |
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to continue doing that. But, if you want to edit files locally and use |
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git to push your changes, that would be an option as well. |
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William |