On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 at 7:11pm, Tom Purl wrote: > On Fri, March 23, 2007 11:42 pm, Hari Krishna Dara wrote: > > > > I know this came up during the recent discussions on using wiki for > > tips and it was ruled out. > > ... > > I came across this free hosting website called 110mb.com which has > > like 2gb of free space with no advertisements and no catches on > > hosting, and many people were successful in hosting mediawiki (search > > their forums) and other wikis on their space. Why shoudn't this be an > > option that we should consider? > > My understanding was that we were going to try and make Wikibooks work > for the following reasons: > > 1. We had people on the list who were already using Wikibooks and liked > it quite a bit. > 2. It uses the Mediawiki wiki engine, which is probably the most > ubiquitous wike engine available. > 3. It has proven spam-fighting capabilities > 4. The majority of people who had an opinion on the topic seemed to > favor using a Wikibook site. > > In the end, I guess you could say that it was the lowest-risk choice.
The reason I brought this up is that someone (Bram?) mentioned that the hosted solution at Wikibooks doesn't have some security/spam features of mediawiki enabled so hosting it separately for Vim was considered a better option, but no completely free hosting services were found. Also, this will allow us to host even scripts such as those that we use to rate the tips on the same server (which might not be an option on wikibooks). However, migrating from Wikibooks to any other mediawiki host (whether self-hosted or another 3rd party) should be straight-forward (right?), so this might not be a big deal after all. -- Thanks, Hari ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html
