AudiFans Wiki

[Al Streicher]

I am in for $10.
Al

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Huw Powell
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:52 PM
To: Kneale Brownson
Cc: Scott Phillips; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: AudiFans Wiki




Kneale Brownson wrote:
> I'd sure favor establishing one that's not dependant upon someone
> else's losing or gaining interest.  That being my case, I'd say
> there's no reason to wait for someone who obviously isn't paying
> attention anyway to pick up the ball that got dropped so long ago.  I
> also agree that a generic free--or low fee-- service would be
> preferable to having the same circumstance reoccur.  It would be
> really nice, however, if there were some way to "mirror" the website
> or have a saveable data base so it wouldn't have to be rebuilt yet
> again in the future.

If an AF wiki is set up again, it should absolutely use MediaWiki 
software - it's the big entrenched game in town (it's what wikipedia 
runs on).  It's easy to use, and features can be "stolen" from WP and 
elsewhere at will.

There's some crappy host that is optmised to run MW sites, that costs 
about $5/month (paid annually in advance) *for low volume wikis*.  If it 
gets serious traffic they shut you down and offer to sell you an 
outrageously priced option.

OTOH, I'm sure Marc Swanson would gladly host it for free (sorry if I'm 
wrong), and could easily handle back end operations.

IMHO editing should be user-only and signup should be moderated.  Sure, 
it slows things down a bit, but stops the endless flow of wandalism.

> There has been a lot of grumbling around about the loss of the
> Audifans Knowledgebase, and attempting to get its return to service.
> As I used that resource and as new owners would I'm sure like to have
> access to it, it was mentioned at recreating it. I put forward that I
> would be willing to "host" site a site another listed put forward
> that we could use one of the many free TWiki's already out there.

Can you set up and run MediaWiki with few headaches?

-- 
Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi

http://www.humanthoughts.org/
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