Re: [Quantlib-dev] [Quantlib-users] Which wiki?

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 09:23 -0500, Joseph Wang wrote:
> I'd like to change the README.txt file in the QuantLib distribution to point 
> to installation instructions on a wiki, but I'm not sure which wiki to use.  
> 
> wiki.quantlib.org points to a wiki at the GNA site, but it was mentioned that 
> we are trying to move things to the wiki sourceforge site which doesn't seem 
> to be public right now.

Joe,
	first of all, apologies for the delay.

Ideally, I'd keep both wikis. On the one hand, I'd use the one at
SourceForge to provide some kind of QuantLib cookbook, namely, a
collection of code snippets showing how to perform common and less
common tasks (and to anyone who's listening, drop me a line if you're
interested in contributing.) Installation instructions for different
platforms would go there as well, at which point we could modify the
README. Also, I would keep this wiki not publicly writable: write access
would be given freely to those who are willing to contribute. It might
be a minor road block; however, the point of such a wiki would not just
be to remain spam-free, but that the code snippets actually work.
Signing up for contributing is a way to show that one takes
responsibility for that.

On the other hand, we can also keep the wiki you started. It might be
some kind of forum for general quantitative- and numerical-finance
discussion. I'm still a bit doubtful about the redundancy with the
mailing lists (for instance, I'd prefer technical questions and
discussions about the code and design of QuantLib to be on the
quantlib-dev mailing list, as the latter is the forum of choice for
that) but the tie with Wikiversity might be appealing to the academic
community. 


Speaking of Wikiversity:

> I've already 
> started some quantlib pages at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/QuantLib .

I've had a look at the front page. A couple of questions:

1) The "Add your name to QuantLib/Developer pool" link at the top of the
page is kind of misleading. We welcome people willing to contribute, but
one's chances to do so are not going to increase by getting an account
on Wikiversity and adding one's name to a wiki page whose existence the
QuantLib administrators were not aware of.

2) in which way exactly has the Globewide Network Academy "committed
significant resources to the development of this library"?

Later,
	Luigi


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