On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:38 PM, <co...@sq7.org> wrote: > The other option to consider for hosted mediawiki is Wikia. They took over > ownership of some wiki I had been maintaining, and do a good job at repelling > Spam, but they do have a commercial aim. > They may be an option if SF doesn't work out.
Yeah, they're an option, though personally I don't much like the commercial aspect. In general, though, going with Mediawiki has the advantage that because it's popular, there are lots of options. Evan Daniel > ------Original Message------ > From: Evan Daniel > Sender: devl-boun...@freenetproject.org > To: Ximin Luo > Cc: Discussion of development issues > ReplyTo: ev...@pobox.com > ReplyTo: Discussion of development issues > Sent: Dec 22, 2009 1:30 PM > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Wiki > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Ximin Luo <xl...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> Evan Daniel wrote: >>> There has been plenty of time spent discussing this before, without >>> any conclusions. The problem isn't that a decision was made but not >>> implemented due to lack of manpower, it's that there was no decision. >> >> I mean, it doesn't seem to me like anyone (apart from you) actually took the >> time to consider the problem deeply, and to devise a solution. The sf.net >> idea >> seems fine (if they do have an easy backup option). > > Well, I haven't considered it deeply :) > > The subject has come up a couple times before, on email in the context > of getting rid of emu, and on IRC. > > SF provides a simple link to download a backup file. Oddly, I don't > see a "restore" link to go with it, but I haven't looked around much. > >> >> If you/anyone hits upon a good idea and people don't respond quickly enough, >> I >> think it's best to just go for it and stop pissing around waiting for enough >> "ayes" to an idea which is probably not disagreeable. If people don't like >> it, >> they can always complain; it's just a risk you have to take to get things >> done. >> I think the risk is low enough here to ignore, anyway. > > I tend to agree. However, this particular change requires assistance > from someone with admin access to the website and the SF project. > > The main technical impediment is converting the Wikka content. I > haven't researched that. > > Evan Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl@freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
