Does anyone want to start a classics wiki.

[Guest guest]

I have been collecting various e text versions of Chinese language TCM books,

generally older stuff that is way out of copyright. It seems that the easiest

and best way to access a lot of info, and perhaps get some collaborative use and

develope the material would be to start a wiki where people can add their

translations, and glosses, perhaps hyperlinking herb and formula info to

standard descriptions of those RX.

 

Does anyone understand wiki set up?

 

Is anybody interested in doing something like this?

 

Par

 

 

[Guest guest]

I've seen wiki scripts that can be put on anybody's website. Taking a quicky

look at the script that runs the wikipedia, it looks like your garden

variety PHP/mySQL interface. Nothing too difficult to install on an

appropriately designed Apache server. Many websites run on the Apache server

as opposed to a Windows server.

 

So, this is technically within my capabilities and an interesting idea, Par.

Where things get a little bit more challenging is pages that need to display

Chinese characters. I don't have a lot of experience with that particular

issue, but I'm not sure that its that difficult either.

 

-al.

 

On 8/10/06, Par Scott <parufus wrote:

>

> I have been collecting various e text versions of Chinese language TCM

> books, generally older stuff that is way out of copyright. It seems that the

> easiest and best way to access a lot of info, and perhaps get some

> collaborative use and develope the material would be to start a wiki where

> people can add their translations, and glosses, perhaps hyperlinking herb

> and formula info to standard descriptions of those RX.

>

> Does anyone understand wiki set up?

>

> Is anybody interested in doing something like this?

>

> Par

>

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I think wikipedia displays chinese with no problems, off their main page, or

perhaps any page you can go to the main pages for many other languages. I don't

know if online editing would work, but people could grab text and hack it in

wenlin, or their preferred chinese WP application and then pop it back up.

Aspirations aside, I don't think we would be talking wrath of god type traffic

here either, I mean how many folks are interested in this stuff in the US?

Probably a few thousand tops, maybe 100-200 who would use it on a weekly basis.

I think newer windows stuff defaults to unicode. I would think wikipedia would

use unidcode also.

 

 

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Al Stone

Thursday, August 10, 2006 10:22 AM

Re: Does anyone want to start a classics wiki.

 

 

I've seen wiki scripts that can be put on anybody's website. Taking a quicky

look at the script that runs the wikipedia, it looks like your garden

variety PHP/mySQL interface. Nothing too difficult to install on an

appropriately designed Apache server. Many websites run on the Apache server

as opposed to a Windows server.

 

So, this is technically within my capabilities and an interesting idea, Par.

Where things get a little bit more challenging is pages that need to display

Chinese characters. I don't have a lot of experience with that particular

issue, but I'm not sure that its that difficult either.

 

-al.

 

On 8/10/06, Par Scott <parufus wrote:

>

> I have been collecting various e text versions of Chinese language TCM

> books, generally older stuff that is way out of copyright. It seems that the

> easiest and best way to access a lot of info, and perhaps get some

> collaborative use and develope the material would be to start a wiki where

> people can add their translations, and glosses, perhaps hyperlinking herb

> and formula info to standard descriptions of those RX.

>

> Does anyone understand wiki set up?

>

> Is anybody interested in doing something like this?

>

> Par

>

 

--

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.