[Foundation-l] The Perl Wiki, or Perl-Wikipedia

Wed Jul 5 22:23:31 UTC 2006

Hello Eric,

as geni has explained, the Wikimedia Foundation tends to launch broad
projects over narrow ones: Wikipedia over "an encyclopedia of birds",
Wikinews over "a news site about health issues", Wikisource over
"public domain novels", and so on.

Much of the content of an "encyclopedia of Perl" would likely have a
place in our existing Wikipedia and Wikibooks projects. For source
code, there's also an interesting wiki at:
http://en.literateprograms.org/

What would be the justification for starting a new separate Wikimedia
site just for Perl? Mind you, nothing will stop you from setting up
your own site using the MediaWiki software (except maybe an aversion
to PHP ;-). You can also use a wiki hosting service, like the ones
listed at:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wiki_Science:How_to_start_a_Wiki

Erik