All
After being a list member for several years, it occurred to me that perhaps
it's time we created a Wiki, along the lines of Wikipedia
(www.wikipedia.org) where all of us can contribute to the greater knowledge
of gliding, instruments, etc. We could also host historical competition
records, pilot profiles, etc. Almost anything is possible, which I guess
explains why Wikipedia's English language version has over 900,000
articles. Give the site a go to see what you can find, and if you have
something more to add, go right ahead and edit it !
There are plenty of useful tid-bits of information that are conveyed on the
Aus-Soaring list, but no real permanent "home" for this collective
knowledge. So, the usual questions about USB to serial converters,
instrumentation, tyre sizes, and sources of parts etc. get repeated
periodically.
The Mediawiki software upon which Wikipedia is based requires a server running:
(a) Apache httpd web server
(b) PHP scripting language
(c) MySQL database software
(d) the Mediawiki software itself.
All these components are freely available on the Internet and will run on
any Unix-ish operating system like Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, etc. There is
also a XAMPP kit for running Apache / PHP / MySQL on Windows providing you
disable Microsoft's own IIS component.
Is anyone on this list willing and able to host such a Mediawiki
configuration ? I've done it before at work on Windows 2000 using XAMPP,
but don't have any sort of permanent internet hosting ability to do this,
though I'd be glad to help out a Mediawiki newbie to get it up and running.
Cheers
Jason Armistead
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