AudiFans Wiki

[Brett Dikeman]

On Nov 16, 2007, at 3:31 PM, Scott Phillips wrote:

> There has been a lot of grumbling around about the loss of the  
> Audifans
> Knowledgebase, and attempting to get its return to service.

This isn't exactly the first I've heard of it, but I haven't heard  
much about the Wiki.  Has anyone who grumbled emailed Dan or myself to  
indicate interest, or volunteer their time?  I tried to get volunteers  
to help go through the articles when it was first taken down, and only  
Huw and maybe 1-2 other people volunteered.  Granted, I dropped the  
ball...but I also never heard anything further in terms of complaints  
or questions.

So! I'm officially saying "put your money where you mouth is" :-)  If  
you want to volunteer your time to clean up existing articles, help  
separate the good stuff from the spam that was injected,  and  
contribute new content...or learn how to do all that...sign up for  
this mailing list:

http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/wiki

..and we'll get this jump-started again.  I agree, the wiki needs to  
come back, and I had already decided on MW even before the wiki got  
hit with spam...I just had a lot of trouble convincing people to do  
the conversion.

Given that there seems to be substantial renewed interest this time,  
I'll set up MediaWiki this weekend.  I can't promise I will get it  
finished this evening, but probably by Sunday lunchtime-ish?

Going through the existing content (which was saved) may not be so  
easy.  The problem is that someone used a bot to fill the wiki full of  
crap pages, all of them with X-rated words in the article titles  
(which, actually, come to think of it, will make zapping the bad ones  
pretty easy.  That'll make for some amusing search strings.)  Still,  
let's discuss on the wiki list I just set up.

Brett