Wiki design

The Structure

• Dict: (Dictionary / Default namespace)

  • code / pseudocode for various important algorithms and data structures

  • working definition of each term

  • snippets of various PL documentation (grammars, semantics, ...)

  • authoritative names for the various PL's

  • relatively difficult to edit - protected to some (small) group

  • new terms (pages) should be easy to make

  • copying of portions wikipedia and lesswrong might be good

  • nothing should ever be deleted here unless "OMG THE SERVER'S RUNNING OUT OF SPACE!!!"

  • large #'s of redirects likely

  • disambiguations should be resolved in DictionaryChange (terms have only 1 meaning)

  • should be a relatively small area, mostly for people who want to know what they're talking about

  • creme da la creme of the site

• DictionaryChange (Talk: ?)

  • RFCT's (request for changes to terms)

  • clarification on whatever some random git posts as a new term

  • garbage-collected once the RFCT has been discussed

• Meta:

  • overview of the site

  • links to related sites

  • IRC channel policies

  • ... other meta stuff ...

• Dect: (Deconstruction)

  • detailed picking apart of PLs

  • analysis of which features work and don't work

  • contain research, summaries/links to research

  • stated opinions of some authorities / random gits

  • performance data / charts

  • cognitive behavioral therapy

  • /really intense/ discussion of the lambda calculus and its relatives

  • trolling for n00bs

  • ... other interesting stuff ...

  • stuff deleted if the author agrees (possibly via protracted silence)

  • goal is to find stuff worthy of a term / page in Dict:

• Perhaps some other namespace(s) for IRC logs, debates, flamewars, images, etc. so we don't have to use Dect: all the time

• User pages limited somehow and garbage-collected based on content

End goal: random user posts some code snippet in Dect:, we say use [[Dict:X]] [[Dict:Y]] and [[Dict:Z]] in [[Dict:AwesomePL]] to make it maintainable. (Maybe make Dict: the main namespace, so it's just [[X]] [[Y]] and [[Z]], and have autolinking enabled - wiki software to shorten it to [x] might be better)