Re: RubySpec link-up with RubyDoc

Rich Morin wrote:
> MW is a very well-developed and -supported piece of technology.
> One problem with it, however, is that it is overwhelmingly aimed
> at meeting the needs of Wikipedia.  So, if a proposed change has
> any chance of interfering with that (or even fails to be relevant
> to that need), it has little chance of getting in.
>
> Also, there is (AFAIK) no good way to automagically load content
> into MW.  I played with PyWikipediaBot (in truth, several months
> ago) and found that it is slow and cumbersome to use.  If you're
> thinking of loading pages with mechanically-generated text, it
> might be worthwhile to find or hack up a replacement...
I always have figured if we really need to make a move at some point, we 
can migrate the content out. Even though it's MW markup format, I'm sure 
there's a Ruby script out there somewhere to reformat it.
For now, it's easy to use, and almost everyone's edited a MediaWiki wiki 
at some point...
- Charlie