[ILUG] content required for YOUR WEBSITE

[Ken Guest]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:05:39PM +0000, fuzzix wrote:
> 
> I was going to make a case for including a wiki on the ILUG site citing
> the LUGRadio wiki: <http://wiki.lugradio.org/> but just took a look over
> there and it's been spammed - damn internet. (D'oh! Always open with a
> positive! *slaps forehead*)

ah, doesn't seem like a good thing.
I'm not particularly enamoured with the thoughts of the linux.ie website
getting "wiki-spammed".

> I don't think anybody is proposing a wiki as some sort of magic bullet -
> work is still required - but the wiki format does seem to make this work
> a lot more palatable - the idea of editing plain text is far more
> appealing to me than editing HTML. 

I've never had any problems with taking plain text contributions and marking
then up myself - in fact there are a number of common scripts such as txt2html
etc that I use for converting them over to HTML format ;)

I'm still considering options here, but again I'm not so sure just wikifying
the content of the site is going to magically mean there'll be loads of
contributions made [if any].

I'm not being cynical or pessimistic here - given the historical apathy against
contributing it's really more a statement of fact.


k.

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