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Help the Perl 5 Wiki reach 1000 pages

Journal written by TeeJay (2309) and posted by grinder on 2008.05.18 8:35   

The Official Perl 5 Wiki now has a total of 893 pages, and 284 pages wanted by other pages.

That means that 1000 pages is well within reach - pick from the "most wanted" page or the "wishlist", or even better - add more content to the many short pages already there such as mod_perl, applications, etc.

Other pages that would be cool to add would be

• Perl usage - collate info about job statistics, cpan growth, surveys, perl monger census (past and current), numbers of conferences, etc
• Packaging applications using PAR
• Brief descriptions of each Perl Release, such as name of pumpking, major changes and links to annoucement, changelog, etc
• Translated pages - currently the entire content is in english - translations of popular and/or big pages would be incredibly useful

The Python wiki has about 4 or 5 thousand pages - it's been around a lot longer than this wiki, but Perl has been around longer than perl and there is a lot more that could and should be covered in the wiki

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• Hey! (Score:1)

  by Marza (3875)

  I didn't even know it existed. *hangs head in shame* I will help out. I see a couple I will tackle. The request on Simon and pairnetworks looks interesting.....
• german translation (Score:1)

  by ggoldbach (7997)

  I'd be happy to translate some wiki pages. Is there any plan for a multi-language Perl5-Wiki? Is there a special naming scheme for non-English pages (I bet there is) or is it just another parameter for the CGI?
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by TeeJay (2309)

    Cool. I don't know of any rules about translations on the wiki. I just checked - nothing, so I suggest updating http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?perl_5_wiki_editing_guidelines [perlfoundation.org] with how you plan to do so - I've suggested something there.

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    @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
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• Sentence needs correction (Score:1)

  by alanhaggai (8497)

  `The Python wiki has about 4 or 5 thousand pages - it's been around a lot longer than this wiki, but Perl has been around longer than perl and there is a lot more that could and should be covered in the wiki.'

  Typo here: Perl has been around longer than `p

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  • Re: (Score:2)

    by TeeJay (2309)

    d'oh

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    @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
    print reverse @JAPH;