Wiki work

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Fri Oct 15 12:37:26 CDT 2010


On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 13:03 +0200, Paul Boddie wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > At the sprint, we talked about plans to revitalize our wiki. We've
> > started working on some of that and you're welcome to join in. Starting
> > points:
> >
> > http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WikiCleanup
> > http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WikiStyleGuide
> >   
> 
> The style guide looks very definitive. One or two things come to mind:
> 
> * Why not use admonitions instead of icons plus text? Apart perhaps from 
> the extra space admonitions take up.

I'd never seen an admonition before I guess. They seem a bit bloated and
tedious to write.

> * Inline commands look a bit cluttered as quoted monospace. Perhaps a 
> slight stylesheet modification would give monospace-only text enough of 
> a distinctive look to delimit it sufficiently.
> 
> On the subject of stylesheets, are you interested in the theme I made a 
> while ago? It's available (to view online and as code) at the following 
> places:
> 
> http://hgwiki.boddie.org.uk/
> https://hg.boddie.org.uk/MercurialWikiTheme/
> 
> (That last page is just hgweb styled similarly to support a demo of 
> hgweb theming.)

Hmm, that seems a bit backwards: I'd rather have the wiki look like
hgweb (ie the paper theme) with navigation on the side!

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