On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 17:23 +0200, jdd wrote:
> Bodo Bauer wrote:
> 
> > So I set up a Wiki and planed to allow it to be edited by whoever feels
> > like contributing. 
> 
> very good idea :-)
> 
> however, I know (having done such things myself) that 
> keeping a wiki with all the fuss of vandalism care and users 
> not always so nice is not trivial.

I know. Been there as well. And if you checked the link you'll see that
the edit functions are still turned off until I find the time to put all
the content I have on the site and I get bit more experienced with the
control mechanisms if MediaWiki.

If anybody has this experience and wants to volunteer as comaintainer,
please step up ... :)

> So to make your work more visible I see two ways:
> 
> * make it a wikibook
> 
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal
> 
> this will give it a very large audience, but not primarily 
> technical. I don't know for sure the licence there, but this 
> could be the best way to keep some part of the licence with you

That looks interesting, thanks for the link.

> * put it on opensuse (or ask us to do so). Like this the 
> licence go to Novell. This has avantages and drawbacks. 
> advantages as if somebody try to copy it and restrict 
> licence on the result, Novell is better armed to fight it, 
> drawback if ever you want to take it back.

I'm very reluctant to sign give up rights to big corporations. And
Novell doesn't really make a difference here. As with every publicly
traded company, it's hard to trust anything in this environment...

> of course, for now and opensuse, the second option is far 
> better :-).
> 
> of course we can stay on your wiki (with a link from us), 
> but I fear you get far less readers/authors

If that's the trade-off, I'm willing to pay...

BB

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