On Tuesday 22 December 2009 19:38:40 colin at 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.
SF is slow. Maybe we should consider other providers? > ------Original Message------ > From: Evan Daniel > Sender: devl-bounces at freenetproject.org > To: Ximin Luo > Cc: Discussion of development issues > ReplyTo: evand at 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 <xl269 at 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 at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100108/e4405c22/attachment.pgp>
