On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:35 PM, 703designs wrote: > On Oct 24, 9:34 pm, John Beckett wrote: >> The Vim Tips wiki is athttp://vim.wikia.com/ >> >> Wikia is a for-profit company. They tried unobtrusive text ads, but found >> their >> revenue is insufficient (in fact, there are current news stories about 10% >> of Wikia >> staff being layed off). > > I say we move things to a new independent, ad-free wiki. I'd be happy > to help set up a MediaWiki site.
I disagree pretty strongly. The vim community has already had websites grow stagnant (like the internet-in-1996 site vim.org and vi-improved.org), and websites quickly lag behind current technologies when no one is actively maintaining them. As long as ads are all it takes to have a guarantee that the site will be constantly maintained and updated with new technologies, I'd much rather put the administration of the site in the hands of those who stand to profit from it, rather than volunteers who might to get bored or distracted with the project. ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
