Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki and SF hosted apps

[Jim H. <jh...@fr...>]

Great comments, thanks. I didn't see the ads with my ad blocker in place.

Since SourceForge has pushed back the date, we have a bit more time to
figure out what to do with the wiki. We always have option 1, but I'd
really like to find out from SourceForge how a local MediaWiki could send
email out, for example to people who need to set up an account or who
forgot their password. If they will support outbound emails from the web
server, that would remove a huge obstacle. SF hasn't been willing to do
this, citing spam concerns (for example, poorly coded formmail scripts.)

In the meantime, I'll be sure to grab a backup of the current FreeDOS Wiki,
as a snapshot.


jh



On Monday, July 9, 2012, Ulrich Hansen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I put a lot of work into the network and the virtualbox chapters in the
> freedos wiki and I like to continue that work. So if you ask me, I would
> clearly prefer to stay with MediaWiki.
>
> I took a quick look on Wikia though and I am not sure that's the right
> place.
>
> There are a lot of ads!
>
> The sort of ads that ask you who's US president (Clinton, Bush, Obama) to
> get a greencard.
>
> Hmm. On my macbook 13 screen, nearly half the content of the wikia freedos
> page is ads.
>
> I am not sure I like to be a part of that.
>
> Okay I just found out you can minimize the annoying bar at the bottom that
> keeps popping up. So that's better. But still.
>
> I took a quick look here [1] and here [2] and unfortunately there are not
> too many free wiki hosting sites.
>
> Maybe we continue to search for more solutions for a few days.
>
> I also will make a backup of the chapters I wrote from sourceforge, as I
> am not sure I still have them on my hdd at home.
>
> thanks for the info, best wishes
> Ulrich
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_hosting_services
> [2] http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Groupware/Wiki/Wiki_Farms/
>