X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/3fd202db7b3b3ea4eb8fc7ecda8db38f8ed788af..43a88daa5fc23fb70c22ab4472dd293e04b7236d:/doc/users/ivan_shmakov.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/users/ivan_shmakov.mdwn b/doc/users/ivan_shmakov.mdwn index 41bf9b09a..ed3863717 100644 --- a/doc/users/ivan_shmakov.mdwn +++ b/doc/users/ivan_shmakov.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,67 @@ … To put it short: an Ikiwiki newbie. -I run an Ikiwiki instance at (though the DNS servers seem to be temporarily out of smoke as of 2010-03-12Z.) +[Altai State University]: http://www.asu.ru/ +[Emacs]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ +[Lynx]: http://lynx.isc.org/ +[Software Freedom Day]: http://sf-day.org/ + +## Wikis + +Currently, I run a few Ikiwiki instances. Namely: + +* + — [Software Freedom Day][] + event at [Altai State University][]. + +* + — introductory materials + on XML, Markdown, Ikiwiki, etc. + in Russian. + +* + — bits & pieces related to the course on computer + networks I've read in 2011. + +* http://rsdesne.am-1.org/rsdesne-2010/ + **(down since December, 2012)** + — used to hold some of the materials related to the + “Remote Sensing in Education, Science and National + Economy” (2010-03-29 … 2010-04-10, Altai State + University) program I've participated in as + an instructor. + +* http://lhc.am-1.org/lhc/ + **(down since December, 2012)** + — used to hold random stuff written by me, my colleagues, + students, etc. + +## Preferences + +I prefer to use [Lynx][] along with [Emacs][] (via +`emacsclient`) to work with the wikis. (Note the “Local +variables” section below.) + +The things I dislike in the wiki engines are: + +* the use of home-brew specialized version control systems + — while there're a lot of much more developed general + purpose ones; + +* oversimplified syntax + — which (to some extent) precludes more sophisticated + forms of automated processing; in particular, this forces one + to reformat the material, once complete, to, say, prepare a + book, or an article, or slides. + +Out of all the wiki engines I'm familiar with, only Ikiwiki is +free of the first of these. I hope that it will support more +elaborate syntaxes eventually. + +---- + + Local variables: + mode: markdown + coding: utf-8 + fill-column: 64 + ispell-local-dictionary: "american" + End: