Version 44 of About the WIki
Updated 2013-03-05 16:22:00 by pooryorickSummary
Information about the design and use of this wiki
See Also
- Wiki
- The basic concept of a Wiki Wiki Web
- the purpose of this Wiki
- a discussion
- Help
- user guide for the wiki
- Wikignoming: what is to be done
- Comments on the Tcl'ers Wiki
- feedback welcomed!
- Tcler's Wiki in the press
- publicity about the web site
- Help - I am stuck in the Tcl'ers Wiki and I don't know what to do!
- Wikit
- the implementation that runs this wiki
- about this site
- suggestions for Wikit
- The underlying software is stable but suggestions and feature requests are welcomed!
- Wiki Gripes
- Wikit problems
- Who owns the content on this Wiki
- talks about intellectual property issues
- New Pages
- A good spot to see new pages launched
- Category Category
- find pages by browsing the category hierarchy
- tcl wiki package project
- a community project
- Wikit Problems
- who to to contact when this site goes awry...
Description
The Tcler's Wiki is a collaboratively-edited area on the web, dedicated to the Tcl programming language and its extensions, including the Tk graphical toolkit. It also has a persisten URL and a mad-cool redirect . Special thanks to the territory of Tokelau for the killer top-level domain (hey Government of Tokelaus, what's up with hosting your site at .nz?)
The system hosting the Tcler's Wiki comprises the following software modules
The relationships between the modules are shown in the following diagram
The Wiki is hosted on a virtual Linux server at Linode.com [L1 ]
The TDBC back-end is currently SQLite.
Searching this Wiki
Editing Pages And Contributing To This Wiki
The help page contains information on how to get started making changes to the pages on this wiki. Any good-faith changes to this wiki are very welcome! Feel free to jump right in to to correct typos, improve code examples (make sure to verify first that your changes don't break the code), add comments or any other content that contributes to the quality of this site.
History
The Tcler's Wiki was created by Jean-Claude Wippler and hosted by him ("IPX Server" [L2 ], located in Nürnberg, Germany) from 1999 until the early 2007. Its domain name has been set up as mini.net. With thanks to the previous provider, Rackspace (TX, US), whose server hosted mini.net for many years.
In early 2007 the hosting was taken over by Colin McCormack after he wrote a new network interface to the Wiki backend, and in early 2008 the Wiki was given a visual makeover by Steve Landers, Jos Decoster began to add new markup (an ongoing project for Jos) and Kevin Kenny wrote the history facilities.
In 2010, Jos Decoster retargeted the wiki to TDBC backend, necessitating substantial rewrites.
The Wiki is now hosted by the Tcl Association on behalf of the Tcl Community, and maintained by a team of volunteers, including
The Wiki contents are stewarded by a team of Wiki Gnomes, one of the most prominent being Larry Virden.
Colin McCormack continues to develop and support Wub and the Wiki network interface.