Bookfair, Zimbra and Mediawiki
Posted by Sayamindu 4 years, 1 month ago
Yesterday, I went to the bookfair with Saumik-da, Ashikur-da, Samarpita-di, Tania and Tania’s (not so little sister), Sonia. Somehow, the crowd almost bearable (or maybe I’m just getting used to crowds), and after around four hours of heavy duty dust inhalation, I came back home with the following books:
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I also bough a special edition of The Hithchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which contains all the four parts.
In my other lifetm I’ve been checking out Zimbra for the mailing solution deployment at WBUT. It does seem to be a very solid and tightly integrated product, though I need to get some data on how well it scales up.
I stumbled across Steven Garrity’s blog post on using Mediawiki for normal, traditional non-wiki websites, and indeed, MediaWiki would probably be the ideal thing for the typical knowledge base cum news portal type of sites that are so common nowadays. However, the default look and feel of Mediawiki is perhaps slightly intimidating, especially for non-technical users, and I guess that a more user friendly/less cluttered up skin (like the one used for the Tango Project site) would be a good idea. Currently, I’m working on converting the Delciously Blue design from OSWD into a MediaWiki skin, and I’ll try to upload the results of my effort within the next few days.
