Python Cook Book vs Active State Cook Book Discussion¶
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ActiveState seems to have the python snippet market well served (example.) Its unfortunate they beat the python community to it, now they have a pretty big market share. – anon
I think they are *part* of the Python community, and they’re doing a good job hosting the Cookbook. – JeanJordaan
Can we successfully encourage new contributions to come to this wiki instead? Do we want that? – anon
Why? Don’t do the same job again. Rather add value, e.g. by coordinating editors who rate and edit recipes at the ASPN cookbook. – JeanJordaan
Can (legally/technically)/should we mine the content from ActiveState to seed this wiki? – anon
I don’t think we should try to move it. They do an excellent job as far as I can tell. Why not let the community grow rather than try to restrict it? – anon
I don’t think we can mine the ActiveStateCookbook to seed the wiki.
I will put all of my code snippets here.
Advantages of wiki over the ActiveStateCookbook:
wiki affords linking between pages
we can correct each others’ mistakes, without working through an editor
we can organize each others’ contributions
I believe our situation is this:
Many people want to put snippets on the ActiveStateCookbook.
Many people want to put snippets on this wiki.
The Sum is Less than Parts. – anon
I think the PythonInfoWiki isn’t living up to it’s potential. As far as I can tell, we are fragmentary, and nobody seems committed to the wiki. We don’t even know who runs it. – LionKimbro 2006-03-30 16:19:29