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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