George Boeree | Re: [LFN] Re: problems
- Autor: George Boeree (“cgboeree”)
- Tema: Re: [LFN] Re: problems
- Data: 2008-10-18 12:43
- Mesaje: 2955 (a supra, presedente, seguente)
Hi, Simon. You are an unusual person, if you are "happy to take the task on." I would be eternally happy if you would do so! George We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine - Eduardo Galeanot  On Oct 18, 2008, at 5:09 AM, simon.franova wrote: > > 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 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]