Thanks for the historical perspective Perry. CLUG operates a wiki too (clug.org.nz aka clug.net.nz) It is pretty small and the bigger parts of it are related to our chch meetings and talks that have been given. There are also some pet projects (one guy has a page on getting netbsd going on a NCD Explora x terminal) and records of getting various things working in linux. We are not as advanced or well organised as WLUG in terms of our wiki. Getting people to contribute is not easy, particularly as we seem to attract a lot of newbies who are looking for info, not the other way round! I also run a private wiki at home where i can make notes about how i got something working, usually they only apply to something thats not of general interest, otherwise I put them on the clug wiki for google to find. One thing to look at is licensing - we have had a policy of using the Creative Commons License, which makes it easy when situations like Nevyn is proposing arise, but I'll refer to thast in response to him. On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:29:04 +1200 Perry Lorier wrote: > When I first started the wiki I didn't think it would work out. I > thought that people would Spam it, we wouldn't get critical mass behind > it for people to use it. It would contain lots of rubbish and very > little content. The only reason I gave it a shot was because I saw how > successful the c2 wiki was ( http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors ) > and how it didn't seem to have the problems I thought there would be. > So I gave it a go with my "little" test to see what would happen. > > The WLUG wiki was originally started by me one long weekend in 2002 ( > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/wlug/2002-June/002526.html )[1] as a > place to put annotations on man pages and to start updating the howto > documents that were horribly out of date (almost exactly your original > proposal). I started by running phpwiki with a few simple local > customisations on my home DSL. I imported all the man pages from my > computer, and all the howto's from the TLDP and encouraged people to > update them to contain any information that they'd be keen on. > [snip] -- Nick Rout ------------------------------------------------------------------- To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.
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