further, many people attempted to restore pages by reposting from cache
and places like way back web.  however the powers that be for that site
fully rejected said content since it didn't match their new format.  so
nearly every google page you hit ends up '404'.

-d

On 06/11/10 04:07, Martin Guy wrote:
> On 6/11/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> It seems that the "official" gentoo wiki project has
>>  either stalled or is being done behind the curtain
>>     
> The gentoo wiki was maintained by an individual who managed to lose
> the entire thing in a server crash and not have any backups. An object
> lesson in "how to do throw away a ton of other people's time and
> knowledge with as little effort as possible, while simultaneously
> doing a small lobotomy to the world mind".
>
> wiki.gentoo.org would be the most sensible place - it might be backed
> up independently by more than one person that way - but it's
> username-password locked even for reading, which completely defeats
> the point of a technical wiki in open-source world.
>
>     M
>   


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