Re: Central Wiki for Perl (?)
[email protected] (Shlomi Fish)
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Hi Jacinta! With your permission I'd like to move the present and future content of the Perl-Begin MediaWiki: http://perl-begin.berlios.de/site-resources/wiki/ To http://perl.net.au/ . There isn't too much there and maintaining a mediawiki on the berlios.de servers is painful. I'm already maintaining 5 MediaWiki instances on a different host but I got root there, which helps a lot. perl.net.au seems to be in much better shape anyways, and I'd rather consolidate the stuff there. I promise I'll do it manually and carefully. So far all the content on the Perl-Begin wiki has been authored by me except for the following essay: http://xrl.us/oxve I'm a bit hazy about its licensing, but I know the author has tended to prefer the Public Domain for his code, so I guess this essay will also be OK. Soon I'll set up a wikis page on the perl-begin site. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Sunday 02 July 2006 04:13, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > While I may be invoking Joel's Quarreling Kids Rule here[1], I think a > > central wiki for Perl may be a good idea, not only as a way to > > consolidate all these specialised wiki's, but also to be "The Perl Wiki" > > which everyone will refer to. We can have http://wiki.perl.org/ for easy > > linking and good Google Juice. > > I agree that wikis are a great idea. We have a not-so central one > ourselves over at: > > http://perl.net.au/ > > The original purpose was to provide a Perl portal for Australian Perl > people, businesses and the like. However so far we've found that we > still had more than enough spare space and bandwidth, so we've branched > out and included: > > * Perl 6 FAQ wiki > * Pod indexing wiki (in process of transition) > > as well as all of our own stuff. > > The wiki uses MediaWiki has an active admin population and bots to > reduce the effects of wiki-spam. > > I support the idea of a central wiki, but in the meantime if you want to > use our wiki (which exists, has admins and hosting), you're very welcome. > > All the very best, > > Jacinta -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [email protected] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ 95% of the programmers consider 95% of the code they did not write, in the bottom 5%.