# Resurrecting the Ruby Wiki

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/resurrecting-the-ruby-wiki/128511>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 8, 2008, 10:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/resurrecting-the-ruby-wiki/128511 "2008-02-08T10:50:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martin\_DeMello](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@Martin\_DeMello](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martin_DeMello)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 10:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/resurrecting-the-ruby-wiki/128511/1 "2008-02-08T10:50:36Z")

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Anyone else miss the Rubygarden wiki? For a language with a community  
as large and active as Ruby’s, it’s a definite drawback not to have an  
official wiki (if only to host a GUI comparison page :)). One idea I  
had was that, since [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) already has a wiki engine built in,  
it could be used to host a new ‘official’ ruby wiki - it would  
strengthen its position as one of the central community sites. Another  
possibility is to have it hosted by Wikia (I know I could just go  
ahead and set one up myself, but I wanted to see what people felt  
about it first). Comments?

martin

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**Author:** ![Martin\_DeMello](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@Martin\_DeMello](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martin_DeMello)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 11:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/resurrecting-the-ruby-wiki/128511/2 "2008-02-08T11:11:50Z")

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On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Martin DeMello wrote:

> Anyone else miss the Rubygarden wiki? For a language with a community  
> as large and active as Ruby’s, it’s a definite drawback not to have an  
> official wiki (if only to host a GUI comparison page :)). One idea I  
> had was that, since [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) already has a wiki engine built in,  
> it could be used to host a new ‘official’ ruby wiki - it would  
> strengthen its position as one of the central community sites. Another  
> possibility is to have it hosted by Wikia (I know I could just go  
> ahead and set one up myself, but I wanted to see what people felt  
> about it first). Comments?

I don’t think it matters much where it is hosted per se.

On rubyforge:

- in the loving hands of Ruby enthusiasts

- rubyforge people probably allready have enough on their hands
- having to fit rubyforge into the framework of rubyforge

It’d be advantageous to be able to script and merge things. Merging  
with the various Ruby documentation project f.ex. is a sweet idea.

+1  
\*t

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