simon.franova | Re: problems
> Stefan Fisahn, who has supplied us with the wiki server,
> can no longer do so.
Ah...
"Sooner or later, it was bound to happen." (Arthur C. Clarke)
I agree that Wikia would be a sensible place to move to:
it's well-established and unlikely to disappear any time
soon. It has annoying animated adverts, but so do other
free wiki farms -- and savvy users can always find ways of
getting their browsers to suppress the adverts if desired...
Wikia sites aren't allowed to compete with projects of the
Wikimedia Foundation, which means they can't compete with
Wikipedia. I don't think that's a problem. Even though we're
gradually building up an encyclopedia written in LFN, our
aim there is not to compete with Wikipedia but to be accepted
into it eventually!
This move may be a blessing in disguise. The existing wiki
contains a fair number of pages that are oddly named or
that would be better if refactored into a more encyclopedic
structure. Moving the pages across provides an opportunity
to tidy many of these things up.
It would also be a good idea to move LFN project pages (such
as Parolas mancada, the grammar discussions, and the raw text
of the dictionary) out of the main namespace (which should
be reserved for encyclopedic articles) and into the project
namespace.
Clearly, moving the LFN wiki is now a priority. I suggest
that, to avoid complete chaos, a single person should be
responsible for moving everything across, and that no
further changes should be made to the existing wiki once
the move has started. I'm happy to take the task on, if no
one else is interested.
Simon