amrita wiki
Charles Basenga Kiyanda
personally find that whenever I go back through the mailing list
archives (or my own e-mail archives), I have to mentally collate and
update information from 2 or 3 different postings. It seems to me a wiki
would be a suitable tool to keep, in one single place, the final version
of an answer to a specific question. Both the wiki and the mailing list
could adequately complement each other.
I had brought the suggestion up with James a long while ago and his
suggestion was to bring up the idea on the list to see if there was
interest from several users. If other users would be interested in such
a tool, making yourselves heard on this list would help gauge the level
of interest.
Cheers,
Charles
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Charles Basenga Kiyanda
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Matei Radulescu
That's a good idea.
However, I don't think we'll be able to have a "final" version to a question, as an improvement is always possible/recommended, and the wiki should have that option. Nevertheless, we can home in on some important topics, the wiki being the next level up from the newsgroup in terms of collecting our ideas in a coherent fashion.
Matei
Cheers,
Charles
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James Quirk
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Charles Basenga Kiyanda wrote:
> Would other people on this list like to see an AMRITA wiki set-up? I
> personally find that whenever I go back through the mailing list archives (or
> my own e-mail archives), I have to mentally collate and update information
> from 2 or 3 different postings. It seems to me a wiki would be a suitable tool
> to keep, in one single place, the final version of an answer to a specific
> question. Both the wiki and the mailing list could adequately complement each
> other.
>
> I had brought the suggestion up with James a long while ago and his suggestion
> was to bring up the idea on the list to see if there was interest from several
> users. If other users would be interested in such a tool, making yourselves
> heard on this list would help gauge the level of interest.
>
At the practical level, googlegroups is undergoing some changes in
the new year. In particular, the wiki pages facility is disappearing, see:
http://groups.google.com/group/apps-discuss/web
to be replaced by the existing google sites capability.
James
> Cheers,
>
> Charles
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Roger Mason
> At the practical level, googlegroups is undergoing some changes in
> the new year. In particular, the wiki pages facility is disappearing, see:
> http://groups.google.com/group/apps-discuss/web
> to be replaced by the existing google sites capability.
I support the proposed wiki.
Am I to infer from James' remarks that we'd need to find a host?
Roger
Charles Basenga Kiyanda
I've never used the proposed replacement to google groups' wiki pages,
google sites, myself. Anybody know if all the members of this mailing
list could be allowed to edit the same site, turning it into the
pseudo-equivalent of a wiki?
If there is indeed enough interest on this list for an AMRITA wiki and
we have to find a different host, I would be willing to:
1) work with the current host of amrita-cfd.org to setup and maintain a
mediawiki installation (I have experience with that software package)
2) donate my own bandwith for a wiki. I buy hosting space for personal
sites and never come close to using my entire storing space or
bandwidth. As long as a wiki would not interfere with my own projects, I
have no problem hosting it.
Let's see if more interest arises from other AMRITA users and what the
options are.
Charles
James Quirk
No. Google are just wanting people to swap from app A to app B.
James
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> Roger
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