On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 23:58, Jeff Turner wrote:

> it is better to have ANY Wiki (here, UseModWiki) than try to establish a
> nonexistent consensus on which Wiki everyone agrees is best.  That can be
> sorted out later, if people want it sorted out badly enough.

I agree in general, but the Wiki is a great example of a place where a
little more forward thinking might have been a good idea. Because wiki's
tend to fill with content rapdily, once you use them for a little while
you are pretty much locked in. Especially given this comment:

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 16:06, Greg Stein wrote: 

> > How viable is it to machine migrate the content?
> 
> The UseModWiki content isn't in bare text files, so a little bit of
> work will be needed.

Brilliant!

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