Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:19:18 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Vanagon Wiki [WAS: Curious incident of the fuel pump ...]
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Thanks for giving this a shot, John. It would be a great resource!
On 8/3/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> John, this is awesome. I will prod you (I have my calendar now set to
> prod me to prod you repeatedly until one of us cries "uncle!").
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> John Bange typed:
> > On 8/2/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Since I know nothing of wikis I can certainly offer my uninformed
> >> opinion that twiki looks at first glance to do everything we'd want
> >> except for not having an HTML dump. But there appears to be a $hitload
> >> of add-ons and plugins that have already been written for it and maybe
> >> such a feature is already available. Or someone a lot smarter than me
> >> could write one.
> >
> >
> >
> > When I initially started "shopping" for wiki software I had Twiki
> > suggested by a friend, but at the time it didn't support WYSIWYG
> editing,
> > which was a total deal killer. After playing with MediaWiki and writing
> a
> > few dozen test pages, I found that writing the articles in that tedious
> wiki
> > markup language was a real drag. I note that with Twiki this has since
> > changed! Upon further examination, it also has the capacity to publish
> to
> > static HTML. That, combined with the "free" and "Linux" thing make it
> look
> > pretty good. I'll "run it up the flagpole" on my test server this
> weekend if
> > I have time. Or sometime next week, at the latest. Either way, keep
> prodding
> > me. My wife says I have far more "good ideas" than I have time or energy
> to
> > see through, so I tend to push one project after another onto the back
> > burner (just ask Maggie Dew how long it's been since I promised to send
> her
> > a speedometer, which I only mailed just yesterday).
> > At any rate, this is something that I've long thought would be useful.
> I
> > have a collection of random information ready to post when the wiki is
> up,
> > and I don't care where it's hosted. I'll point the "www.vanagonwiki.net"
> > domain at whoever wants it, if they want it bad enough to put the wiki
> up.
> > I'll work on getting my server up either way.
> >
> > --
> > John Bange
> > '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
> >
>
--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
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