You can find me on the chat quite often. I'm addicted to Tcl.
Not many contributions to the wiki yet, but here are some I think are especially neat.
and a few things I've put here for lack of a better home:
.. other random ranty stuff:
Soon, some of my essential code will appear on https://chiselapp.com/user/aspect/
I keep screwing up wiki syntax. Is there an existing (concise) page with example formatting to use as a reference? Definition lists, which way around links go, indent levels for lists, how to do categories correctly, how multiple discussion tags work, those tabular summaries on project pages ..
There's a lot of old discussion in here that hasn't been relevant since last century. While preserving it for folks stuck on old versions and archaeology is desirable, wiki usability would be dramatically improved by a lot of this content disappearing, or moving to somewhere less distracting to readers and editors. I often get stuck, trying to contribute to a page in poor state and at the same time make its navigability better (or at least not worse!). Can the gnomes offer any hints or policy?
See for example send. Content above the discussion repeats the manual verbatim. This is a problem because changes to the manual don't make it into the wiki. Wiki content goes stale, people get misled, someone eventually has to change it by tediously copying text from the manual into wiki syntax. In the meantime, pointless content gets in the way of maintaining the good stuff.
IMHO all verbatim manual content in the wiki should be erased.
If you have an opinion on the matter, please write it here:
A lot of manual links go to purl.org or to specific versions of Tcl. More robust links can be generated that look like:
http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/TclCmd/Tcl.htm
I'm fixing them when I touch related pages, but a wiki macro would also help.
... this is where I will eventually elaborate my plans to promote Abstract Interpretation, Macrology and/or inline-able procedures to make Tcl more fun and performant.