hi all - i'm usually the first to complain about mediawiki functionality cos it doesn't suit my whitebread googleized need for hand feeding however i do also appreciate the need to engage with these learning curves for the greater good. so i'm writing to you today from this ambivalent headspace to ask for examples of any mediawiki sites you know of which are *beautiful, practical, easy to use, elegantly structured and so on*. take your geeky hats *off* and find me sites that i can show to other mortals so that i can learn to love mediawiki AND convince other people.
thanks in advance
r
btw anything that looks like wikipedia, the mediawiki site itself and can be safely excluded... just so you know :-)
Thanks for the heads up, sparker! ;) A collection of mediawiki templates installed on my test site @ http://jaspercat.net/wiki/ There's an account setup so you can login and switch between the 9 different skins currently installed. Details on the homepage.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Steven Parker <sparke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: rgrozdanic <rgrozda...@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:51 PM > Subject: :: TALO :: show me some BEAUTIFUL mediawiki sites > To: teachAndLearnOnline@googlegroups.com
> hi all - i'm usually the first to complain about mediawiki functionality > cos it doesn't suit my whitebread googleized need for hand feeding however i > do also appreciate the need to engage with these learning curves for the > greater good. so i'm writing to you today from this ambivalent headspace to > ask for examples of any mediawiki sites you know of which are *beautiful, > practical, easy to use, elegantly structured and so on*. take your geeky > hats *off* and find me sites that i can show to other mortals so that i can > learn to love mediawiki AND convince other people.
> thanks in advance
> r
> btw anything that looks like wikipedia, the mediawiki site itself and can > be safely excluded... just so you know :-)
> hi all - i'm usually the first to complain about mediawiki functionality > cos it doesn't suit my whitebread googleized need for hand feeding however i > do also appreciate the need to engage with these learning curves for the > greater good. so i'm writing to you today from this ambivalent headspace to > ask for examples of any mediawiki sites you know of which are *beautiful, > practical, easy to use, elegantly structured and so on*. take your geeky > hats *off* and find me sites that i can show to other mortals so that i can > learn to love mediawiki AND convince other people.
> thanks in advance
> r
> btw anything that looks like wikipedia, the mediawiki site itself and can > be safely excluded... just so you know :-)
>> hi all - i'm usually the first to complain about mediawiki functionality >> cos it doesn't suit my whitebread googleized need for hand feeding however i >> do also appreciate the need to engage with these learning curves for the >> greater good. so i'm writing to you today from this ambivalent headspace to >> ask for examples of any mediawiki sites you know of which are *beautiful, >> practical, easy to use, elegantly structured and so on*. take your geeky >> hats *off* and find me sites that i can show to other mortals so that i can >> learn to love mediawiki AND convince other people.
>> thanks in advance
>> r
>> btw anything that looks like wikipedia, the mediawiki site itself and can >> be safely excluded... just so you know :-)
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:51 PM, rgrozdanic <rgrozda...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi all - i'm usually the first to complain about mediawiki functionality > cos it doesn't suit my whitebread googleized need for hand feeding however i > do also appreciate the need to engage with these learning curves for the > greater good. so i'm writing to you today from this ambivalent headspace to > ask for examples of any mediawiki sites you know of which are *beautiful, > practical, easy to use, elegantly structured and so on*. take your geeky > hats *off* and find me sites that i can show to other mortals so that i can > learn to love mediawiki AND convince other people.
> thanks in advance
> r
> btw anything that looks like wikipedia, the mediawiki site itself and can > be safely excluded... just so you know :-)
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:51 PM, rgrozdanic <rgrozda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi all - i'm usually the first to complain about mediawiki functionality >> cos it doesn't suit my whitebread googleized need for hand feeding however i >> do also appreciate the need to engage with these learning curves for the >> greater good. so i'm writing to you today from this ambivalent headspace to >> ask for examples of any mediawiki sites you know of which are *beautiful, >> practical, easy to use, elegantly structured and so on*. take your geeky >> hats *off* and find me sites that i can show to other mortals so that i can >> learn to love mediawiki AND convince other people.
>> thanks in advance
>> r
>> btw anything that looks like wikipedia, the mediawiki site itself and can >> be safely excluded... just so you know :-)
i can't guarantee the subjectively-experienced aesthetics of each, but i tag mw sites i find of some interest as below - and amongst them i suspect you might find some examples of interest:
rgrozdanic wrote: > wow brent - i already had this site bookmarked as beautiful/functional > but didn't realise it was a mediawiki so that's an excellent surprise.
> thanks also to robin and gnuchris (and pgpete too - i take back the > ray gun quip) - very interesting to see the different design ideas.
> keep 'em coming.
> r
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Brent <pumiceh...@gmail.com > <mailto:pumiceh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:51 PM, rgrozdanic <rgrozda...@gmail.com > <mailto:rgrozda...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> hi all - i'm usually the first to complain about mediawiki > functionality cos it doesn't suit my whitebread googleized > need for hand feeding however i do also appreciate the need to > engage with these learning curves for the greater good. so > i'm writing to you today from this ambivalent headspace to ask > for examples of any mediawiki sites you know of which are > *beautiful, practical, easy to use, elegantly structured and > so on*. take your geeky hats *off* and find me sites that i > can show to other mortals so that i can learn to love > mediawiki AND convince other people.
> thanks in advance
> r
> btw anything that looks like wikipedia, the mediawiki site > itself and can be safely excluded... just so you know :-)
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