Re: TECH: Is there a Mediawiki developer in the house?

On Oct 1, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> On 2007-10-01 Paul Bennett wrote:
>> I plan to produce a wiki-style collaborative project for
>> historical/comparative linguist(ic)s.
>
> So have I.  I have also registered the domain
> paleoglossa.net for it.
That name certainly intrigues me. Is it destined to be a repository
of diachronic conlanging?

>   Rather than building
> the same building twice we should team up!
> I got plenty of webspace, and could point the
> domain name anywhere too, of course.
>
>> Rather than starting from
>> scratch, I've decided to look at forking Mediawiki
>
> rather than that you should look into writing
> extensions to MW.  I think you could do many
> things with templates.  If what you have in mind
> is talking to dictionary databases it might be
> another matter, although extensions should handle that
> too.
>
>
> /BP 8^)>
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> Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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> No man forgets his original trade: the rights of
> nations and of kings sink into questions of grammar,
> if grammarians discuss them.
> -Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)

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