About site
From BioPerl
This website is an experiment in using community input on documentation via a Wiki and we need volunteers to help edit these pages and add information. It is intended to be a hosting site for community documentation of the project and to help keep the documentation in sync with the current code. Jason has started a style guide to provide some guidelines for creating pages.
We also are running a blog site which will provide a key set of links for users and regular updates about code, mailing list traffic, and developments in the project.
See our style guide if you'd like to learn a bit about contributing to this Wiki.
There is a wiki page for every BioPerl module, if there is a newly created module we will need to add it to the site with our boilerplate template mentioned in the style guide (Jason is working on ways to auto-generate this when needed). A listing of all pages in the Module namespace is available from Special:Allpages. We encourage the addition to these pages of snippets of code showing how to use these modules, workarounds, and pointers to other modules which are complementary. Comments and discussions about a module and its implementation should be localized to the discussion paired for each wiki page.
To report a technical problem with the wiki (login/password problems, Database/Apache errors), please send an email to: support - AT - open-bio.org.
Plugins and Extensions
We are happily using the Biblio.php extension from Martin Jambon to generate the bibliographic links on many pages. See the style guide for more information on using it.
We are also using the Winter extension for some scripting in our templates.
The GeSHi and GeSHiHighlight extension is used to generate pretty code markup for text that is enclosed in <perl></perl> blocks.
Information about plugins can be found at the Special:Version page including links to the installed Winter and RSS modules.
Editing Mediawiki
In addtion to direct editing the wiki pages via HTML in your web browser, you can download mediawiki pages and edit with local editors using the perl module WWW::Mediawiki::Client module - see the mvs client as part of the package.
