Version 30 of About the WIki
Updated 2012-08-27 20:10:30 by LkpPoThe Tcler's Wiki is a collaboratively-edited area on the web, dedicated to the Tcl programming language and its extensions, including the Tk graphical toolkit.
The system hosting the Tcler's Wiki comprises the following software modules
The relationships between the modules are shown in the following diagram
The Wiki is hosted on a virtual Linux server at Linode.com [L1 ]
The TDBC back-end is currently SQLite.
Editing Pages
Information for this seems rather scattered and is not easily found, so I thought this should be a starting point, since it is easily accessible on the left banner About the Wiki buchs
- Formatting Rules (this seems to be up-to-date and most useful for editing an existing page when you've done it before but can't remember the markup. buchs. The edit page has a number of buttons at the top which help in the insertion of markup. It has a button linking to a help page as well ak.)
- How to edit these wiki pages
- When you want to create a unique page, add a link to it on New Pages.
History
The Tcler's Wiki was created by Jean-Claude Wippler and hosted by him from 1999 until the early 2007. In early 2007 the hosting was taken over by Colin McCormack after he wrote a new network interface to the Wiki backend, and in early 2008 the Wiki was given a visual makeover by Steve Landers, Jos Decoster began to add new markup (an ongoing project for Jos) and Kevin Kenny wrote the history facilities.
In 2010, Jos Decoster retargeted the wiki to TDBC backend, necessitating substantial rewrites.
The Wiki is now hosted by the Tcl Association on behalf of the Tcl Community, and maintained by a team of volunteers, including
The Wiki contents are stewarded by a team of Wiki Gnomes, one of the most prominent being Larry Virden.
Colin McCormack continues to develop and support Wub and the Wiki network interface.