Create Chronological Wiki Table

[jrg94]

I'm interested in finding other ways to organize the current data. For instance, it would be cool to have a chronological table to organize the languages by the year they came out.

The main problem is, however, that we're going to end up with a lot of duplicate information. In other words, we might have a table where Python appears under "P" as well as "1991." As a result, any changes to one table would need to be made in the other.

I'm wondering if there's a better way to handle this.

[jrg94]

Perhaps, we can make a general meta data table (i.e. # of snippets, etc.), so we don't have duplicate information floating around.

[jrg94]

It's really too bad we can't automate some of this. Even if someone could draft up a Python script just to generate parts of the wiki, that would be nice.

For instance, it would be nice to be able to traverse the folders and build up those tables automatically. I might look into that. Then, we'd just need to run that script every so often to update the wiki.

[jrg94]

Found a python markdown API, but I think it's used for web. I'm not sure it'll be helpful here.

[Berkmann18]

You could (in theory) automate that but as you said, it would lead to duplicate content unless the repo uses one way (say alphabetically like it is now) and on the webpage where this repo is usable (say on a GH page) then it could have an option that users could change to set the listing way (date of apparition or alphabetically or ...).

[jrg94]

Others have mentioned GitHub pages in the past. Does that seem like a better idea than to host a wiki?

[Berkmann18]

@jrg94 Well, it might be better when it comes to dynamic things such as that but for static information than a wiki would be fine.

[jrg94]

Closing as duplicate.