On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 3:02 AM, John Beckett wrote: > > 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 stagnanCt (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.
BTW - Thank you John! My previous comment could equally well be construed as "But where will we be when John leaves?"... In all seriousness, though I try to clean up a tip or two when I have a chance, vim.wikia.com wouldn't have a chance without you. Thanks for all you do for the community. ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
