AudiFans Wiki

[frank j. bauer]

i think the important thing is to reach an agreement that would allow 
the mining of af/qlist archives to seed the kb/wiki.
with proper attribution to the author if possible and the list as well, 
of course.

i would like to offer my nomination to name it the obvious:
qwiki

frank

Huw Powell wrote:
> 
> 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?
>