Hi all, [ I am writing this message in English out of convenience. Feel free to reply in Hebrew. ]
I'd like Hamakor to host or sponsor ikiwiki hosting such as the one provided by http://www.branchable.com/ for use by various open source and/or open content related sites (blogs, wikis , even bug trackers) powered by Ikiwiki. Ikiwiki's advantages are: 1. Allows for both online and offline editing of the content. 2. Keeps everything in a version control system (such as git, Mercurial or even Subversion), and in well-formed formats such as markdown or XHTML, for easy reverting, tweaking, restoration, history logging etc. 3. Free and open source software. 4. Mature and with a live ecosystem. ------------------ Why not WordPress? The real question is "Why WordPress??!". WordPress sucks. As noted in this blog post of mine - http://unarmed.shlomifish.org/2396.html - this post - http://actionflickchick.com/superaction/wired-interviews-the-action-flick-chick-geek-cultures-26-most-awesome-female-ass-kickers/ has eaten my comment and wouldn't publish it (and silently), which I luckily knew better than to edit only on the page and instead kept written in a gvim buffer. The subsequent comment referring to the link was posted but without any of the <a href="..."> tags, and naturally the WordPress developers in their infinite wisdom, don't provide comment previews by default. Now, actionflickchick.com is a very modern WordPress blog, and although I was hoping the WordPress people would fix these major issues, they didn't. WordPress is the PHP of blog engines - the most hyped and the most popular - but the technically worse one, and the blind-leading-the-blind. (P.S: go on and crack http://www.zak.co.il/ - Drupal 5.0 and http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ - very old WordPress). Moreover, if you accuse me of deprecating PHP or recommending Ikiwiki which is Perl-based over it because I like Perl, then please do me and the world a favour and read: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque And for the record - I believe there are several Ikiwiki clones written in other languages aside from Perl. ----- In any case, I have the following sites in mind for Ikiwiki: * A site for Freenode's ##programming channel: https://github.com/shlomif/Freenode-programming-channel-FAQ (more than just a FAQ). * http://vim.begin-site.org/ (currently using Jekyll which kinda sucks). * http://www.linux.org.il/ (started using a custom CMS, but I think ikiwiki will be better). * More. Anyway, it's not a lot of money and we can use for Israeli sites or those with Israeli contributors. We can mandate that the licence will be a superset of CC-by-sa (like CC-by or PD) except for fair use cases. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://shlom.in/sw-quality The X in XSLT stands for eXtermination. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/XSLT/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
