Re: Shopping for a wiki

2009-12-31 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 30 Dec 2009 at 20:05, Trent Shipley wrote: What is a web in this context. It sounds like there is an effective limit of 20,000 pages per named wiki instance (a web), but that the Foswiki engine can support multiple wikis. A web is the top level hierarchial organisation. Each major project

Foswiki up and running

2009-12-31 Thread Nick Arnett
Got Foswiki installed here: http://nickarnett.net/sfwiki As I mentioned before, we can point a domain name to that directory when this project decides to announce itself. Interested parties, register thyselves and I'll make the appropriate, involved people into administrators. And... a blast

RE: The wikipedia trolls may win again (III) :-/

2009-12-31 Thread Julia Thompson
-Original Message- From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On Behalf Of David Hobby Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 2:42 PM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again (III) :-/ ... It seems like they are

Re: Foswiki up and running

2009-12-31 Thread Richard Baker
Nick said: And... a blast from the past, pasted below. I'll let whoever emerge as the folks who lead the wiki project decide how to respond. As usual, I'm inclined to let the community choose and will only intervene directly as a last resort. I don't know whether I get any kind of vote,

Re: Foswiki up and running

2009-12-31 Thread Trent Shipley
And... a blast from the past, pasted below. I'll let whoever emerge as the folks who lead the wiki project decide how to respond. As usual, I'm inclined to let the community choose and will only intervene directly as a last resort. Nick It's been a sufficiently long banishment.

Re: Foswiki up and running

2009-12-31 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Trent Shipley tship...@deru.com wrote: And... a blast from the past, pasted below. I'll let whoever emerge as the folks who lead the wiki project decide how to respond. As usual, I'm inclined to let the community choose and will only intervene directly

Re: SciFi and Fantasy(?) Wiki

2009-12-31 Thread Trent Shipley
If we are to grow we need an organizational plan for growth. We need a growth oriented revenue plan. ** This can wait awhile. ** Nonprofit?? underwriting or no underwriting? ** For profit? (I would be reluctant to contribute for free.) If it grows, I

Re: Foswiki up and running

2009-12-31 Thread Trent Shipley
Nick Arnett wrote: Got Foswiki installed here: http://nickarnett.net/sfwiki Hi Nick, check out: http://n2.nabble.com/Foswiki-f2555947.html It's the archive for Foswiki discuss after March 2009. I have a thread near the top. The gist is that if we are lucky we could run into a problem

Re: Foswiki up and running

2009-12-31 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 31 Dec 2009 at 13:07, Nick Arnett wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Trent Shipley tship...@deru.com wrote: And... a blast from the past, pasted below. I'll let whoever emerge as the folks who lead the wiki project decide how to respond. As usual, I'm inclined to let the

RE: Foswiki up and running

2009-12-31 Thread Gary Nunn
And... a blast from the past, pasted below. I'll let whoever emerge as the folks who lead the wiki project decide how to respond. As usual, I'm inclined to let the community choose and will only intervene directly as a last resort. I haven't participated here for a while, but I do still

UniversesImagined webs

2009-12-31 Thread Trent Shipley
I can think of at least two webs that we will need. Most important we will want the main web with all the writing about imaginaria. Then we will need the meta-content where we have policies, discussions about the site, basically information about the site, so a MetaUniversesImagined web. And

May not be around

2009-12-31 Thread Nick Arnett
Brinellers, FYI, I may be missing from here over the coming days, depending on how things go. My younger sister is suddenly critically ill and the list, the new wiki and so forth may end up very low on my priorities for a while. If you'd like to send good thoughts and prayers her way, her name

Re: May not be around

2009-12-31 Thread Charlie Bell
On 01/01/2010, at 2:48 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: Brinellers, FYI, I may be missing from here over the coming days, depending on how things go. My younger sister is suddenly critically ill and the list, the new wiki and so forth may end up very low on my priorities for a while. Go do what

Gravity wells

2009-12-31 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
http://xkcd.com/681/ (You will need to click to embiggen.) . . . ronn! :) ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Gravity wells

2009-12-31 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 31, 2009, at 10:18 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: http://xkcd.com/681/ (You will need to click to embiggen.) Wait. Venus is more dense than Earth? But it's only fractionally larger. Oo. Maybe that's because it didn't get creamed hard enough to calve its own moon. I wonder if Earth +