On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > In case I forgot earlier, many thanks for running the link check! > > You didn't forget, but in any case you're quite welcome. > > > Would a completely separate wiki be an option? It's not that I want a wiki > > for non-related LyX stuff, it's only that it'd be nice to be able to refer > > LyX users to some place. In addition, I suspect that LyX users learning to > > edit wiki pages will eventually benefit the documentation project as a > > whole. A third benefit is that people more actively editing a wiki > > automatically means more feedback to me about the site's usuabiliy and any > > bugs - this is of course both good and bad ;-) > > Well, if you have capacity (both disk and bandwidth) and are willing to > offer this, I guess why not? I'm a bit fuzzy on what it would look > like, though.
Hmm... even though the disk (<1 MB) and bandwith (normal web server) requirements would be very small, I can't really offer anything as it's not my server. > My impression was that wikis were typically "themed"; the LyX wiki, for > instance, deals pretty much exclusively with things related to LyX. As for the theme, I guess it'd still be for the LyX community, although the material might not be directly related to LyX... that's a theme of sorts. > Would an unthemed wiki draw visitors? I don't actually care :-) It was just that the "spam" about CV writing made me wonder why someone would place it there in the first place. There is also some stuff that is sort of LyX-related. A lot of stuff discussing LaTeX in general could fall in that category. > Anyway, the only concern I would have would be with legal issues > relating to what got posted. Would you monitor the content (and reserve > editorial rights)? If not, what are the relevant laws (and for that > matter, what's the relevant jurisdiction -- you're in Sweden but the > wiki is hosted in Norway)? We're still trying to sort this stuff out > over here, as the recent flap over the Wikipedia attests. I honestly don't know... in a sense I monitor some of the stuff what goes on the LyX wiki, primarily in order to watch out for spam abuse etc. But it's not a very strict process. Still, I suspect that these issues aren't a big problem in our particular case - at least not any worse than the current wiki. However, since no one else has given an opinion on this I'll just let it rest. It's not like I can't create a separate wiki later on :-) cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
