Matt Wozniski wrote: >> 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.
That's how I see it as well. I've actually received a good offer of a server and bandwidth, and no doubt a couple of people here (me included) would be happy to play around setting up MediaWiki etc. But the ongoing support is a killer. Upgrades, backups, support ... it's not going to happen. We struggle getting a handful of tips cleaned up. We had an incident a couple of months ago where a spammer made half a dozen junk pages every day on the Vim Tips wiki. After trying to cope for a week, I posted one message and sent one email. Within 12 hours Wikia had installed a package to allow admins the option to temporarily block all edits (we haven't needed to do that), and they provided a full-time staffer who wrote a script for the particular attack, and monitored its progress. John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
