permaculture

[Graham <grahamburnett@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Can the existing data be imported into 'our' wiki? it would seem a grate
shame to waste the effort and time that has so far gone into creating
what is there.

On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 13:34 -0500, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
> Graham wrote:
> 
> > It would be good if we could get the discussion going on the talk pages
> > of the wiki itself - I'm not sure who originally set up the wikia
> > permawiki,
> 
> The problem with that wiki is that the install of the wiki software was 
> done by Wikia,
> not us, and there's no way to change the functionality of it. Furthermore, 
> they own the site
> and our data and can it keep online or not as they choose. There's no 
> security there for the long haul.
> 
> We need to decide that we are a group and install our own software on a 
> server (we already have one
> for that purpose), maintain and own it ourselves. It could go indefinitely 
> in a situation like that.
> 
> In other words, we need to start a new wiki, an RDb and a blog ourselves. 
> Those who favor a database can work on that, 
> others can work on the other components and programming enhancements for 
> them.
> 
> LL
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