> We (collectively) promised to help Alexander - I promised to provide him with a<br>> rendering engine (in Erlang) for the wikipedia markup language.<br>
><br>> Before I start hacking has anybody done this before?<br><br>You're going to find this an extremely hard sell - I ran the idea past the Wikipedians almost two years ago, with a semi-functional proof of concept, and was basically booed out of the IRC channel on grounds that erlang/mnesia don't have the kind of penetration that PHP/mysql do.<br>
<br>Also, it's my opinion that none of the currently available webservers (httpd module, yaws, etc) are appropriately oriented towards near-nonexistence (there's absolutely no reason for a site meant to replace Wikipedia to need on-disk configuration or indeed any form of disk access, provided mnesia access). Of course, I'm in the middle of repairing that.<br>
<br>Still, good luck.<br>