Another Conserpadia accidental joke: Fidel Castro is dead

2009-12-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
http://www.conservapedia.com/Fidel_Castro Fidel Castro (born August 13, 1926, presumably died by 2009) was the brutal communist dictator of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, (...) I don't think the list admins realize that Conservapedia editors are adding up minor vandalisms to make it a parody of

Re: Another Conserpadia accidental joke: Fidel Castro is dead

2009-12-30 Thread tshipley
No, this one may be right. Fidel got too sick to rule and was followed by his brother Raul(?). Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel -Original Message- From: Alberto Monteiro albm...@centroin.com.br Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:41:18 To: Killer Bs \(David Brin et al\)

Weekly Chat Reminder

2009-12-30 Thread William T Goodall
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over ten years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat technologies, and even casts of regulars over

Re: Another Conserpadia accidental joke: Fidel Castro is dead

2009-12-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Trent Shipley wrote: No, this one may be right. Fidel got too sick to rule and was followed by his brother Raul(?). What is the _reliable_ source that Fidel is undead? Alberto Monteiro ___

Re: Another Conserpadia accidental joke: Fidel Castro is dead

2009-12-30 Thread Trent Shipley
Sorry. I must read more carefully. I missed the retired, presumed dead part. tship...@deru.com wrote: No, this one may be right. Fidel got too sick to rule and was followed by his brother Raul(?). Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel -Original Message- From:

Re: Another Conserpadia accidental joke: Fidel Castro is dead

2009-12-30 Thread David Hobby
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Trent Shipley wrote: No, this one may be right. Fidel got too sick to rule and was followed by his brother Raul(?). What is the _reliable_ source that Fidel is undead? Alberto Monteiro How about Van Helsing's _Who's Who of Vampires_?

RE: Another Conserpadia accidental joke: Fidel Castro is dead

2009-12-30 Thread Pat Mathews
Because being a dictator is the creme de la creme of vampiredom. I don't have to hunt them - I got me a ranch! http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:45:47 -0500 From: hob...@newpaltz.edu To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Another Conserpadia accidental joke:

Re: Shopping for a wiki

2009-12-30 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 29 Dec 2009 at 22:22, Trent Shipley wrote: The potential participant says he hates MediaWiki because it was designed with a flat user model. It has no built in hierarchy and we No, I hate it because it's basically the lowest common denomiator of wiki-dom. It does a lot of things, but it's

Re: SciFi and Fantasy(?) Wiki

2009-12-30 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 29 Dec 2009 at 19:19, Nick Arnett wrote: As long as it runs on Linux (that's the hosted environment) and we can reach consensus AND it isn't a CPU hog (important for costs), I'm fine with whatever. Memory and disk space seem to be non-issues for practical purposes. It should be fine, as

Re: SciFi and Fantasy(?) Wiki

2009-12-30 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 29 Dec 2009 at 22:44, Trent Shipley wrote: The Foswiki community is actually positioning the product as what I call an un-wiki. If you turn everything off it works like wikis were originally intended to work with no workflow model and two levels of heirarchy, administrators and

Re: SciFi and Fantasy(?) Wiki

2009-12-30 Thread Nick Arnett
Based on the discussion, I'm dumping MediaWiki and installing Foswiki... and it's not going entirely smoothly, but I'll get there. Nick ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Shopping for a wiki

2009-12-30 Thread Trent Shipley
Andrew Crystall wrote: On 29 Dec 2009 at 22:22, Trent Shipley wrote: See above answers. There's an effective page limit per-web (20,000), but you are not limited in the number of webs and users you can create. The biggest? Probably Google or Nokia's installs. (Foswiki is the direct