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** https://www.facebook.com/LojbanHQ | ** https://www.facebook.com/LojbanHQ | ||
** so people can see Lojbanic news in their feeds | ** so people can see Lojbanic news in their feeds | ||
*Performance. tiki is very slow when saving edits because it | *Performance. tiki is very slow when saving edits because it sends watchlist mail synchronously. Later versions of tiki send mail asynchronously, but there are barriers to upgrading tiki. | ||
* LMW has wysiwyg editing plugin so in some cases you can edit text like in MS Word without knowing wiki syntax. | * LMW has wysiwyg editing plugin so in some cases you can edit text like in MS Word without knowing wiki syntax. | ||
*LMW is multilingual. All languages are equal (Lojban is the topic of the wiki, not only one of the interface languages). On the main page you can on the language flag changing to your version of the wiki. the interface changes accordingly. the links to learning resources change according to your language. | *LMW is multilingual. All languages are equal (Lojban is the topic of the wiki, not only one of the interface languages). On the main page you can on the language flag changing to your version of the wiki. the interface changes accordingly. the links to learning resources change according to your language. | ||
Revision as of 16:09, 18 October 2014
Advantages
- The presence of Lojban on the web should be more automated. LMW has Twitter/Facebook plugin. twitter.com and facebook.com are very popular websites. Any changes to LMW are automatically posted without user interaction to special groups:
- https://twitter.com/uitki
- https://www.facebook.com/LojbanHQ
- so people can see Lojbanic news in their feeds
- Performance. tiki is very slow when saving edits because it sends watchlist mail synchronously. Later versions of tiki send mail asynchronously, but there are barriers to upgrading tiki.
- LMW has wysiwyg editing plugin so in some cases you can edit text like in MS Word without knowing wiki syntax.
- LMW is multilingual. All languages are equal (Lojban is the topic of the wiki, not only one of the interface languages). On the main page you can on the language flag changing to your version of the wiki. the interface changes accordingly. the links to learning resources change according to your language.
- MediaWiki has a lot of strings localized to dozens of languages. No need to localize the interface ourselves.
- MediaWiki has a large active community led by WikiMedia foundation. They provide security and functionality. If in future they decide to migrate from PHP to a more advanced language they will provide tools for migration. Wikipedia (which uses MediaWiki engine) is the fifth used website on the web. It's unlikely it will be discontinued.
- templates can be created easily with hardcoding them. Write templates as the content of the wiki!
- API to fetch texts of pages