Hi all Wiki'ers.

It's actually even worse than quiet on the wiki front.
As a moderator, I received today a note from YahooGroups that
said that our forum would be closed if there was no activity on
it. It indeed didn't get any posting for more than three months.

Actually, I had a discussion with Peter some time ago, that wondered
if it made sense to keep it open. I encouraged him not to close it,
because it only makes a few 404 not found links somewhere and
it doesn't cost anything to let it alive. I also argued that
some people kept subscribing, and very little of you did
unsubscribe. To make the test, let's repeat how you unsubscribe from
this group : it's very simple : you send an empty mail to
wikiforum-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com. Please don't send
"unsubscribe" messages to the list, it only annoys people.

But back to wiki, here are some small news from my site :
Although I was too lazy to correct the documented Y2K bug
(2001 is shown as year 101), I was surprised to find it
alive and kicking, with around 10 hits a day (a bit less in
July), but very little changes in pages (around one a month),
all this excluding my own activities of course.

Have a nice holiday and share your wiki experiences on this forum
if you want it to stay alive. Or unsubscribe if you lost interest.
That will allow us to get a clearer picture of the situation.
FYI, there are still more than 100 persons subscribed.

Regards.
Christophe.

--- In WikiForum@y..., Christophe Vermeulen
<Christophe.Vermeulen@a...> wrote:
> Hi Peter and all,
>
> Indeed incredibly quiet on the Wiki front. As I was relocated
> for one year in sunny Côte d'Azur, so no work on my "clone", I
> wonder how I'll find it back after one year without support.
> Broken ? Still running without contribs ? Booming ?
>
> Anyway, to add to Peter's answer, yes, wiki is usually only a
> part of a "conventional" website. You obviously need to have
> Perl somewhere and refer to it in the first line of the script.
>
> If you want to use the automatic "backup" using RCS, it will
> take longer. And even a bit longer if you want to get direct
> access to the "old versions".
>
> About links, yes you can easily code "outbound" links in wiki
> by typing "http://somewhere". Inbound links would be in the form
> of "http://host.domain.com/cgi-bin/view/wikiname/wikitopic".
> But your mileage may vary a bit.
>
> Enjoy Wiki.
> Kind regards.
>
> Christophe.
>
> PS. This address (@etsi.fr) will cease working soon. Please reply
> either on the list or @alcatel.be.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Thoeny [mailto:peter@t...]
> > Sent: vendredi 9 mars 2001 06:33
> > To: WikiForum@y...
> > Subject: Re: [WikiForum] whispering
> >
> >
> > Hi Ray,
> >
> > you are right, this forum is *very* quiet. Most
> > discussions around Wiki systems is done at the
> > Ward's original Wiki site and specific Wiki clone
> > sites like http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/
> >
> > To answer your question, yes it is possible to
> > have a set of static HTML pages and a Wiki system
> > coexist. Simply create links from the static HTML
> > pages to Wiki pages and vice versa.
> >
> > You need to install the cgi scripts in the
> > cgi-bin directory or any directory that is
> > cgi bin enabled. Then you need also some space
> > for storing the database or the flat text files
> > that make up your Wiki pages. Download one of
> > the Wiki systems and you will get the
> > installation instructions.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > nitnop@m... wrote:
> > >
> > > Gee, How come it's so quiet in here? Hope you don't mind a
super
> > > newbie question? I'm no code writter, far from it, but I do
like to
> > > build web sites. I am really interested in Wiki for a
> > future intranet
> > > I may be involved with and I'd also like to add Wiki pages to
some
> > > web sites, which brings me to my question. In order to build
Wiki
> > > pages do I need to have the source code in the cgi bin of the
server
> > > that is hosting the site? In other words, how does one start a
Wiki
> > > collaborative site and can Wiki exist as part of an HTML based
site?
> > > Regards,
> > > Ray
> >
> > -- Peter@T... - http://twiki.org/
> >
> >
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