> The idea was that the 315 subscribers to this mailing list are the only > people in the world with the slightest motivation to delete spam from > the wiki and, since its not a terribly thriving, active wiki, even we > members of the cgiapp community don't visit it all that much. > > So my hope was that by having these messages come to the list would > remind people that the Wiki exists, "ping" them that people contribute > to it, and maybe spark enough curiosity that someone checks to see what > was edited, and in the process, is able to find and fix spam.
In my case, this has been working, and I have been visiting more. I don't really mind the notices right now, but I can also understand that the mailing list could feel like a drag if the quality of discourse was lowered to primarily being terse automated messages about wiki updates. It seems like a nice option to be enabled per-user, but then I'm not sure I want to see all the automated updates in my personal inbox... > It's my last attempt to save the Wiki. If it continues to be used more > by spammers than the community, then it is not really worth the time and > trouble involved in continuing to operate it. If, as I hope, these > messages help spur the community to step up and contribute and help > maintain and police the thing, then we'll be able to continue to have a > Wiki for the foreseeable future! Since I do some website admin work myself, I also appreciate this sentiment. Perhaps the wiki would be more interesting to use if we used a different wiki engine. Kwiki is written in Perl, but certainly never took off and seems to lack some features that seem standard in wikis now. For example, it seems like a large flaw that it offers no way to enter a short message explaining *why* a change would made. Other alternatives I'm familiar with include MediaWiki (PHP...), Trac (Python...) or and gitit (Haskell...). There was some interest in building a wiki based on CGI::Application, but that hasn't materialized. I'm sad to say that there's not a Perl-based wiki that I'm aware of as becoming prosperous and popular. For me, open-source vs. closed-source is ultimately a greater concern, and I could put aside language preferences and use another open source option. But back to the fundamental question: If the wiki was overhauled, would you use it and maintain it more? Mark -- http://mark.stosberg.com/ ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################