<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div>On 12 Apr 2016, at 11:36, Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com">dave@lab6.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 April 2016 at 09:17, Sebastian Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org" target="_blank">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id=":4pm" class="" style="overflow:hidden">One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that, although we could do<br> better, the wiki and the mailing list are among the *things that work*.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right, that's why I am focusing on reforming them :) </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Replacing is hardly reforming.<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Kindly, the wiki [is] stale.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Changing a wiki with "click to edit" to a different system with a "click to edit" function will not make it less stale.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id=":4pm" class="" style="overflow:hidden"> Frederick Grose has been on top of the Mediawiki from the web-admin<br> point of view and is quite knowledgeable of it.<br> I'm afraid a longer different-to-wikipedia process might be a chore to<br> set up with little return of investment.</div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> I'm advocating for [changing from mediawiki to something else].</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>You don't seem to have anyone to actually do the work to even set up a credible alternative yet. Why don't you do that first and migrate part of the content, then advocate for switching?</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id=":4pm" class="" style="overflow:hidden"> El 12/04/16 a las 07:58, Dave Crossland escribió:<br> <span class="">><br> > +1<br> ><br> > Who will set this up on the SL servers, and when? :)<br> <br> </span>As with all volunteer projects, those who do the work decide how (and<br> when) it's done. I don't think this is low hanging, or even fruit.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If no one wants to do it, I think Github Pages + Jeykll wins, because the only systems administration effort is required is setting the DNS records. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If noone wants to change things, we should change things?</div><div><br></div><div>The point is that because it's a waste of work and nobody wants to do it, it's not going to get done. Not dealing with that is just wasting emails.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Cheers<br>Dave</div> </div></div> </blockquote><div><br></div>Martin</div><div><br></div></body></html>