On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:19:05PM +0200, NSK wrote:
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:32, Edward Peschko
wrote:
I sincerely believe that the FreeBSD is a better
fit for my wiki
than the GnuFDL - especially because it can be sublicensed - but hesitate
to do so if it would jeapordize having the wiki accepted as a sister
project..
If your project is unique/unusual and is related to sciences and I like it, I
may be able to accept it as a project of my site, the Wikinerds Community <
http://portal.wikinerds.org >, which means that I will offer free hosting and
I will have control over the project's policies (practically this means
enforcing
http://www.wikinerds.org/legal and having a link to
Wikinerds.org
homepage and forum). If you are interested, send a detailed description of
the project and a link to a webpage where I can see your work, together with
the text of the license you want to use and a short introduction of yourself
including your full name and a link to your personal homepage at
info(a)wikinerds.org
well, its tempting, but I'm not too thrilled with the idea of ceding both
policies and content, as switching to a different platform (drupal vs mediawiki).
In fact, that's one of the primary goals of my project; to see exactly *what*
licensing scheme works well with scientific development. wikiresearch has hosting
space right now as well as complete freedom in development, so I'm not sure what
wikinerds would offer.
I'm really more interested in expanding mediawiki as it stands to handle
scientific content with the aim of merging the results into the wiki
foundation. It seems to be the logical choice - established, multi-linugal,
well-traveled. And enhancing mediawiki to handle scientific content
bolsters the foundation's reputation, and broadens its scope, as
well as adds potential for features to be added to wikipedia proper.
And being a separate, small project gives wikiresearch loads of
room for experimentation. Basically - we can find out what works
and what doesn't; and I've got a couple of professor friends who
are willing to act as guinea-pigs, so we can work out the kinks
in making mediawiki useful for scientific publishing..
Anyways, thanks for the offer. I'll keep it open and we'll see how the
experiment goes..
Ed