On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Phil Ehrens<p...@slug.org> wrote: > Felix Kjäll wrote: >> Hi, as a long time lurker I have finally decided to join in. >> >> Well, I was thinking... Isn't it time to clean up the wiki? >> There really isn't much information there that one could use >> any more, since so much has changed the last couple of years. >> Combined with the lack of recent wiki updates I find the wiki >> almost useless. I think it actually would encourage more people >> to contribute to the transcode documentation if the wiki would >> be completely reset. What do you guys think? > > As the wiki maintainer, I agree 100%. But somebody needs to be > willing to take responsiblity for beginning to populate the > new wiki. > > I can create a new wiki similar to the existing one, with the > addition of an upload feature (with individual passwords, so > that if someone goes bonkers they can be locked out without > affecting anyone else). > > Or someone else could take over, and perhaps set up a mediawiki > based wiki, which requires more maintenance. > > I apologize for not fixing the wiki properly after the recent > server upgrade, but I'm afraid my time is not my own right now, > with the usual business of life, plus a dying family member. > > Phil > >
I think it would be good to archive the current wiki under some obscure url. Some things are still correct, so it would be handy to be able to cut/paste them from old to new. -- Carl K
