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Eh... no one has actually commented on the program itself... :(
Dirk Riehle wrote:
I think it would be good to make sure we don't
equate the world of
wikis with Wikipedia. [snip]
I recognize that you use WikiStatus only as a shorthand for Wikipedia
Status and spell it out most of the time, but sometimes acronyms
take on a life of their own, say if you register a domain for it.
On second thought, the name doesn't seem that good. WikiStatus implies
that it is a wiki about status (which is incorrect). The next
interpretation is that it's the status of a wiki, Wikipedia, which is
not true either: the software should be usable for any service out there
on the web even though it was originally designed for Wikipedia.
SJ <2.718281828(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So
wikipstatus.com, with a silent p?
Well, it would be a .net, but no. :o) Any other suggestions?
Brion Vibber wrote:
More importantly, it's on an unreliable, buggy,
insecure old version
of MediaWiki on somebody else's site which is less reliable than
ours. That's why the links to it were removed some time ago.
Here's the old message:
Mark Ryan wrote:
Note that I have removed the link to
OpenFacts.berlios.de, which was
getting overloaded as soon as Wikipedia went down. I have also removed
the link to the "offsite donation page" at Angela's request. The
French, German and Japanese messages direct those people to that
language's IRC channel.
It's a pity, because pages like OpenFacts are useful precisely because
they're not as fast paced as IRC (IRC channel gets flooded anyway), and
have loads of useful links.
What I'd really like to do is have Wikipedia set up an official
contingency site and re-add the link to the error page. That's why I did
this. So I'm sort of waiting for your blessing. ;)
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