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Re: The perfect nFilter for John Corliss

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:33:58 -0500, »Q« wrote:

> In <news:5jb6j9F3t4317U1@mid.individual.net>,
> hummingbird <hummingbird@2die4.com> wrote:
>
>>>ACF freeware: http://freeware.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
>>>
>>>is this your site?
>>
>>Not at all.
>
> The sysops are you, Bottoms, and Johansson.  Maybe he didn't ping you
> when he gave you control of it.

People who are interested in what happens in the freeware wiki probably
looks at the Recent changes page now and then, and it is easy to see that I
made BB and HB administrators a week ago or so.
They may not have realized that yet.

Because of illness have have less and less time and energy to take care of
the freeware wiki, so I am happy a few persons have become engaged in it.
And some of them are very qualified in different areas, like security
programs.

Let me remind you, that I set it up when Susan declared that she would not
handle a whole bunch of tasks anymore.
In other words, the way we had worked, letting Susan do all the work, did
not work anymore, so we should re-think the whole way we do things.

If a number of people in acf want to cooperate to create a list of the best
of the best in freeware we could use a wiki, which makes it a lot easier
for a lot of people to do a little each without having to pass all
information through a single web master.

I then suggested that a wiki would be a much better way to handle a group
effort, and I set one up to show how it works so people can try it and
participate if they like. I negotiated with the Wikia foundation to get a
free wiki in their system, which also handles wikipedia and many other
wikis, and it is the most reliable and powerful wiki system we can get for
free.

It uses the mediawiki  software, which is the most common wiki system on
the web. Whatever you learn about using wikis in this wiki you can also use
in thousands of other wiki systems.

Anybody can set up the mediawiki system on his own computer, I did that
once, and there are also many free wiki-farms on the web which use the
mediawiki system, if you would like to set up your own public wiki some
day. Then you have use for the knowledge you get by using this freeware
wiki.

The last thing I did before transferring the leadership of the wiki in
other hands was to, quite undemocratically, decide which logo to use.
Because I had planned to put up that logo for 6 months and wanted to see it
there.

The new administrators can, of course change the logo as they like now, I
just wanted to see my favorite picture there before I transfer the control
of the wiki to other people.

It is soon time for the yearly voting procedure again, among the acf
participators who support the pricelessware list initiative, and as Susan
this year will not do a lot of the work, as she declared last year, it will
probably become a problematic situation, which should make more acf
participators re-think how this group effort is handled, and how it could
be handled instead.

Anyhow, the wiki I started for you is up and running, day and night, thanks
to the Wikia foundation, if you would like to try it and maybe use it for
the main part of the work, entering and updating program descriptions.

The whole content of the wiki, or single pages, can easily be exported in
xml format, and in the tar format for all the images, so it can be
processed in different ways, the content can be transferred to any other
mediawiki system, etc.. I wrote practical directions for how to do that on
the discussion page of the main page.

http://freeware.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

--
Roger J.

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