Re: Frysk Wiki

[Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:27 +0000, Phil Muldoon wrote:
> The Systemtap project, also hosted at sourceware.org:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/systemtap/
> 
> Uses a wiki to store and distill a lot of the information about Systemtap:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki
> 
> Is there value in Frysk website moving to a similar mode, instead of 
> static htdocs?

Yes, I think that would be very valuable.

> Though I am not a particular fan of wiki's, I think they do a better job 
> at allowing information to be stored, history kept, and data changed to 
> reflect the current state of affairs. I tried to convert Sami's 
> excellent Fedora rpm email to htdoc and it soon evolved into a nightmare 
> on painful, dated and pedantic set of problems. I gave up. I'm not a 
> html/web programmer, and I don't care to be.
> 
> I know wiki's can be a controversial, so lets discuss it. Frank (cc'd) 
> mentioned he would help set-it up if that's they way the website goes.

If we can get Frank to help us setup then I am all for it.
I agree that editing the html files by hand is a bit of a pain.

The only concern I would have would be how to handle spam.
Unfortunately that is a real problem these days. For the wikis I setup I
either spend some time every day to delete/revert the spam or keep the
wiki closed to only registered users (which kind of defeats most of the
positives of having a wiki in the first place).

Cheers,

Mark