[ILUG] content required for YOUR WEBSITE

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

Ken Guest <mailto:ilug at ken.guest.cx> said on 05 December 2005 11:16:

> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:05:39PM +0000, fuzzix wrote:
>> 
>> I was going to make a case for including a wiki on the ILUG site
>> citing the LUGRadio wiki: <http://wiki.lugradio.org/> but just took a
>> look over there and it's been spammed - damn internet. (D'oh! Always
>> open with a positive! *slaps forehead*)
> 
> ah, doesn't seem like a good thing.
> I'm not particularly enamoured with the thoughts of the linux.ie
> website getting "wiki-spammed". 
> 
>> I don't think anybody is proposing a wiki as some sort of magic
>> bullet - work is still required - but the wiki format does seem to
>> make this work a lot more palatable - the idea of editing plain text
>> is far more appealing to me than editing HTML.
> 
> I've never had any problems with taking plain text contributions and
> marking then up myself - in fact there are a number of common scripts
> such as txt2html etc that I use for converting them over to HTML
> format ;)   
> 
> I'm still considering options here, but again I'm not so sure just
> wikifying the content of the site is going to magically mean there'll
> be loads of contributions made [if any].  
> 
> I'm not being cynical or pessimistic here - given the historical
> apathy against contributing it's really more a statement of fact. 
> 
> 
> k.

Ken

But haven't you heard? Wikis are the "in" thing!!

*cough*

Michele

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