> > 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
Yes! Something like archive/legacy/old.transcoding.org would be nice. And also make the archives non-indexed by google et al.