[SciPy-User] SciPy09 Video page direct links

[David Warde-Farley]

On 27-Aug-09, at 8:43 PM, John Hunter wrote:

> Hey this is great - - the relevant sections of the scipy website are
> written in ReST, I believe, so what would be most helpful would be a
> ReST document that has the content you submitted in html.

They aren't, yet -- they're written in whatever awful wiki dialect  
Moin uses. Though that will be changing shortly.

I've put off announcing it to the list, but myself and a few others  
have been slowly converting all the useful (non-spam and non-personal  
page) content on the wiki to ReST, with the goal of moving the  
SciPy.org main page off of moin and onto Sphinx, and the Cookbook into  
pydocweb. You can take a look at the progress at http://github.com/dwf/rescued-scipy-wiki/

We'll certainly leave the current wiki intact for the time being, and  
there may be a fresh wiki instance (with CAPTCHAs to prevent the  
downward spiral we've seen within the current Moin instance) set up  
afterward, but it seems like the face of the community to the world  
ought to be one that is less of a mess, easily maintainable, and with  
comparatively little opportunity for vandalism.

David