Paul Irofti wrote:
Hello vimmers,
I don't understand why Google Wiki is being discussed here as the main
solution. As I see it there are a few _major_ disadvantages of using it:
- it has software limitations that a large community, such as ours,
can't cope with
- it's managed and offered by a third party organization
- we don't have controls of what features we want in and/or out or the
way the layout/code/roadmap goes
- it's a commercial product and Vim will be asociated with it in the long
run
- Google is as corporate as you can get, corporations and OpenSource
don't mix well together (there are tons of examples)
- from what I've read in this thread it doesn't even have all the
features needed for a working Vim-tips wiki
On the other hand mediawiki seems the best solution for something like
this:
- it's *OpenSource*
- it offers an easy management environment
- it can support high loads of traffic (see wikipedia)
- it has multi-language support
- it's easy to customize and improve
- it's not chown()-ed by any corporation
I know I'm not a regular here, but I read most of the mail I get from
vim@ and don't quite get why you people are seriously considering this.
So I thought I'd drop my two cents and hope that someone can shed some
light.
Thanks,
Paul.
Not a regular, maybe, yet your name isn't unfamiliar to me. Thanks for passing
by.
If we gan get hosting space somewhere for a mediawiki server, I'm all in favour.
Best regards,
Tony.
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