5:24 a.m.
Hi, especially Jack,
I just noticed that Sourceforge seems to offer a project wiki. So
perhaps the existing wiki could be migrated (without the obsolete
content) to sourceforge. However, I don't know about the feature set,
whether something is missing that we would require. OTOH the current
wiki doesn't seem to be used much, so I guess not many features are needed.
I guess I could administrate that new wiki (if so desired), perhaps that
would also lead to me looking at the issue trackers more often.
Would that save you any work and/or make the wiki more useful?
cheers,
sven
5:51 a.m.
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Hi, especially Jack,
I just noticed that Sourceforge seems to offer a project wiki. So
perhaps the existing wiki could be migrated (without the obsolete
content) to sourceforge. However, I don't know about the feature set,
whether something is missing that we would require. OTOH the current
wiki doesn't seem to be used much, so I guess not many features are needed.
I guess I could administrate that new wiki (if so desired), perhaps that
would also lead to me looking at the issue trackers more often.
Would that save you any work and/or make the wiki more useful?
Well certainly the wiki as is now is not a particularly popular vehicle.
Maybe moving to SF could boost its visibility a little; however, I don't
know how we could guard from spamming. The most time-consuming task I had
as wiki adminsitrator was cleaning it from time to time. After we
introduced drastic identity controls thinkgs have got much better, but
nobody's using it (at least, nobody's adding stuff --- I don't have
statistics on simple read access).
I have the feeling that either we find a way to revive the wiki (and at
that point the transition to SF becomes a possibility) or declare it
officially dead and move on. Somebody suggested a forum: I must admit I'm
emotionally attached to the mailing lists, but forums (the plural should
be "fora" technically, but I digress) seem to have become the standard way
of sharing information on projects of any kind, and people find it strange
that a gretl forum deosn't even exist. That said, spammers are an issue in
forums too; as a proud member of an Italian rugby forum, I can testify
that the site nearly died of the sheer mass of spam it was receiving.
-------------------------------------------------------
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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6:07 a.m.
Hi,
I think that the risk of spammers is reduced in SF, because it requires to
be registered.
By the way I would also like to grab some knowledge managing the wiki for
"my" own SF project at http://glpsolve.sourceforge.net/ (Linux only IDE
:)).
Cheers,
Hélio
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it> wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Hi, especially Jack,
>
> I just noticed that Sourceforge seems to offer a project wiki. So
> perhaps the existing wiki could be migrated (without the obsolete
> content) to sourceforge. However, I don't know about the feature set,
> whether something is missing that we would require. OTOH the current
> wiki doesn't seem to be used much, so I guess not many features are
> needed.
>
> I guess I could administrate that new wiki (if so desired), perhaps that
> would also lead to me looking at the issue trackers more often.
>
> Would that save you any work and/or make the wiki more useful?
>
Well certainly the wiki as is now is not a particularly popular vehicle.
Maybe moving to SF could boost its visibility a little; however, I don't
know how we could guard from spamming. The most time-consuming task I had
as wiki adminsitrator was cleaning it from time to time. After we
introduced drastic identity controls thinkgs have got much better, but
nobody's using it (at least, nobody's adding stuff --- I don't have
statistics on simple read access).
I have the feeling that either we find a way to revive the wiki (and at
that point the transition to SF becomes a possibility) or declare it
officially dead and move on. Somebody suggested a forum: I must admit I'm
emotionally attached to the mailing lists, but forums (the plural should be
"fora" technically, but I digress) seem to have become the standard way of
sharing information on projects of any kind, and people find it strange
that a gretl forum deosn't even exist. That said, spammers are an issue in
forums too; as a proud member of an Italian rugby forum, I can testify that
the site nearly died of the sheer mass of spam it was receiving.
-------------------------------------------------------
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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6:35 a.m.
Am 13.03.2015 um 11:07 schrieb Hélio Guilherme:
Hi,
I think that the risk of spammers is reduced in SF, because it requires
to be registered.
I think so, too.
By the way I would also like to grab some knowledge managing the wiki
for "my" own SF project at http://glpsolve.sourceforge.net/ (Linux only
IDE :)).
Does that mean you are volunteering?
<from Jack:>
Well certainly the wiki as is now is not a particularly popular
vehicle. Maybe moving to SF could boost its visibility a little;
however, I don't know how we could guard from spamming. The most
time-consuming task I had as wiki adminsitrator was cleaning it from
time to time. After we introduced drastic identity controls thinkgs
have got much better, but nobody's using it (at least, nobody's
adding stuff --- I don't have statistics on simple read access).
As a user I would also be reluctant to register with a site just for a
single item such as a gretl wiki. The hope at SF would be that people
are registered there anyway (although I don't know if that assumption is
really true anymore, if it ever was).
I have the feeling that either we find a way to revive the wiki (and
at that point the transition to SF becomes a possibility) or declare
it officially dead and move on. Somebody suggested a forum: I must
admit I'm emotionally attached to the mailing lists, but forums (the
plural should be "fora" technically, but I digress) seem to have
become the standard way of sharing information on projects of any
kind, and people find it strange that a gretl forum deosn't even
exist.
I agree that the general wiki idea hasn't been a big success anywhere I
think. Obviously wikipedia is an exception, but only because a lot of
resources flow into it in terms of moderation, monitoring etc.
Forum: Yes perhaps it could replace the user's list. An item for
discussion at the conference?
cheers,
sven
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