Hi all, The ALU wiki has been hosted on lisp-based wiki for a few years now. One year ago, the server's drive was lost; and the wiki contents had to be reconstructed by scraping the web.
The current result is a hard-to-use, buggy wiki with many broken pages. Drew Crampsie has been very helpful throughout the restoration and fight with spammers; but he just doesn't have time to do all the coding required to make ucliki (the current wiki software) a full-featured product. Significant effort would be required; I would estimate a few man-months to address the issues on my bug/wishlist. Instead, I propose that we move the wiki contents to a MediaWiki. This gives immediate access to an industrial-strength wiki for hosting content; and it has an easily-parsed archival format for the lisp wiki of the future to slurp back in. Now is a good time to switch wiki formats. Many (most?) pages on the ALU wiki already require manual editing to fix conversion issues in the restoration. Others didn't even make the transfer. http://web.archive.org/web/20080417121424/http://wiki.alu.org/Gardeners_Projects To prototype what this might look like, I set up a temporary wiki at http://aluwiki.tentpost.com This has been seeded with part of the Road to Lisp Survey. Feel free to create an account and make your own changes. If people like the new site, we can arrange to transfer its contents to a different address/server, announce it to the world, and convert all contents off the old site. If people don't like it, it can die a quiet death. All comments appreciated. Later, Daniel _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
