rbv Posted February 21, 2007 Report Posted February 21, 2007 Wow, there's a ton of great information here in the Forum. And, best of all, it's presented clearly, with lots of evidence to back it up, in a non-confrontational manner. Unfortunately, it's often scattered across various threads, the various sub-Forums, and spread out over almost countless entries. I've seen various mention of developing the FAQs, or a manual, but needless to say, there's probably not much interest in any one person sitting and trying to actually compile everything into one neat package. However, I'm wondering if there's interest and/or potential to develop a wiki approach. That is, everyone contributing to a given authoritative entry, with the ability to edit/amend the entry. Certainly it would require further development of the idea, the process, and the website; but, I'd likely be more interested to sit down and sort through all of the various entries on a given topic and compile a wiki entry that could be added to in an organized fashion. Just throwing the idea out there to see what the elders think. I just know that I've read countless posts on a given topic, but, now can't recall which/where/specifics...just random bits and pieces. Not to mention how current some of the thinking is...is the info in older posts still up to date, or has the subject changed dramatically?
TheNakedWhiz Posted February 21, 2007 Report Posted February 21, 2007 Are there free wiki-hosting sites? You can get a free website, a free blog, a free guestbook, etc. What about wikis?
LeadDog Posted February 21, 2007 Report Posted February 21, 2007 The wiki could be hosted on this site. It has everything that is needed to make it work, PHP and MySQL.
TheNakedWhiz Posted February 22, 2007 Report Posted February 22, 2007 For my own info, though, are there any free DIY wiki's out there? Thanks!
LeadDog Posted February 22, 2007 Report Posted February 22, 2007 TNW I did a quick search on google for free wiki and there looks to be free wikis just like the free blogs. Then there is this form of DYI free wiki that I have. http://wine.techlab.info/wiki I installed Apache 2.0, PHP 4.3.9, and MySQL on another computer that is connected to the internet by DSL 24/7. I had to learn how some things were done but that is what I really wanted to do anyway.
LeadDog Posted February 22, 2007 Report Posted February 22, 2007 Here is another part to the yes answer. You can also run a wiki with LAMP, MAMP, and WAMP. The first letter of those three words stands for the operating system the rest is Apache, PHP, and MySQL. MAMP on my Mac runs just like an application you can open and quit it just like any other applications. MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it PowerBook or iMac. Like similar packages from the Windows- and Linux-world, MAMP comes free of charge These kind of packages are for people to do development work and not for serving the websites to the world. I use MAMP to server a BLOG for myself that I use as a journal. You can do the same for a wiki if that is what you were looking for.
PaulR Posted February 23, 2007 Report Posted February 23, 2007 Yep, btw don't work too hard this weekend and just think of us poor people in Sydney having to go to the beach and cool down in the surf... Wiki's are great maybe we should install some webcam's pointing to the various KK's!!!!
Fetzervalve Posted April 2, 2007 Report Posted April 2, 2007 Did the Wiki idea die? I think it would be great. It could become the owners manual and the cookbook.
PaulR Posted May 26, 2007 Report Posted May 26, 2007 Let's revive this thread... Any news on the wiki (DeeJ aren't you able to install one being the admin?)
DennisLinkletter Posted May 26, 2007 Report Posted May 26, 2007 I'll put one up here.. I'll get a wiki up this weekend.. I saw it was offered in Fantasicko on my server.. Both TikiWiki and PHPWiki are offered.. DJ didn't you tell me you liked a lil' Tiki Tiki Wiki every now and then?
LeadDog Posted May 26, 2007 Report Posted May 26, 2007 Dennis check this wiki out as it is intergrated into Joomla. http://extensions.joomla.org/component/ ... Itemid,35/
Sanny Posted May 26, 2007 Report Posted May 26, 2007 Re: I'll put one up here.. DJ didn't you tell me you liked a lil' Tiki Tiki Wiki every now and then? OH MY!!!
