I think Google Sites  is a different to hosting a development project
at code.google.com? -- I suspect the latter would be a better
environment for development Wiki. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with
either wiki to say for sure.

Joe.


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Larry Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Google Sites looks acceptable. According to :
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-sites-now-open-to-everyone.html
>
> "Similar to Google Docs, built-in editing tools allow for popular text and
> formatting changes to be made in a straightforward, WYSIWYG manner. Once
> your site is up and running, inviting people to edit or view your content is
> as simple as entering in their email address (of course, you can change
> access levels at any time). And you (or anyone who has editing privileges)
> can add or edit information whenever you'd like."
>
> The big issue will be porting over the content from the old Wiki. This will
> be difficult, I think.
>
> Larry
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Joe Desbonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> The Wiki at code.google.com?   (Hosting, backups and maintenance taken
>> care of by Google).
>>
>> Joe.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Stefan Steiniger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > Dear users and developers,
>> >
>> > due to maintenance difficulties of our current Wiki (openjump.org) but
>> > also
>> > with the aim to release Jon Aquino from his duties we decided to move
>> > the
>> > Wiki.
>> >
>> > The question is where to host it? That is, we need a service, as we have
>> > no
>> > servers for hosting [not sure if OSGEO can help here]. So if you have
>> > suggestions, then please let us know! (I know there was a discussion a
>> > while
>> > ago on that topic, with respect to Google-sites.)
>> >
>> > Ideally the new Wiki should fulfill these requirements:
>> >
>> > . editing for every person who wants to edit (i.e. at least the people
>> > registered to our mail lists should be allowed to edit)
>> > . some type of spam-filter [e.g. a captcha], so that we avoid/identify
>> > bad
>> > edits
>> > . it should allow to pull a backup
>> > . we should be able to delete single, unwanted, very old pages (this is
>> > a
>> > problem right now, as the backup is currently 715MB large!)
>> >
>> > Any suggestions?
>> >
>> > As a fall-back strategy we may use possibility to add pages on the
>> > OpenJUMP-users Google group, use Google Sites, or use the Wiki that
>> > comes
>> > with our SourceForge account (i.e. the account we use for code and
>> > project
>> > management, but this wiki )
>> >
>> > best regards
>> > Stefan
>> >
>> > PS: Sunburned: I think you already did a test with Google Sites. Can you
>> > check if one can add a Google-group to the list of people for editing?
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