50 dollars in the month, what kind of hosting do you get? Somewhere shared or a dedicated machine?
2011/4/3 Mike Linksvayer <m...@gondwanaland.com> > Hi, a few quick things about AcaWiki, without replying to bits of > individual emails: > > Neeru Paharia started it with a small grant from the Hewlett Foundation. > Neeru asked John Wilbanks and me to serve on AcaWiki's board (we've all > worked together at Creative Commons), and Creative Commons to host and do a > little development on the site initially. Hosting cool projects isn't > generally something CC can do, but does use MW and SMW for its own site, so > made an exception for the time being. > > Jodi has also been really involved in the project, and Mako has been so far > the only massive contributor. The project has probably been a success solely > on the grounds of capturing and explaining some of the knowledge passing > through Mako's brain. :-) > > Neeru should speak up on disposition of the project, but IMO: > * Folding into a WMF project would be by far the best outcome, whatever > changes that would ential > * Moving to another host is necessary in any case; Referata would probably > be great, there was also discussion with Fabricatorz, run by Jon Phillips, > another person we've worked with at CC > * Making the UI as close to 100% stock MW/Vector as possible is desirable > * Keeping SMW, much as I love it, is not crucial, at least to the current > featureset > > -- > Mike > http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2009/10/06/acawiki/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Regards, Huib "Abigor" Laurens Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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