Oh, also there is the additional option of setting up shop at a
Wikipedia that has had little or no action. This is *not* something I
would encourage! Please exhaust all other options first. Depending on
which language you choose though, it could take a very short time or a
very long time for anybody to realise what you're doing. And if you
can round up a good sized group of contributors, and you get up a
sizable number of articles, when you *are* eventually found out there
is a good chance the content will be kept, but moved to a different
subdomain (most likely ang:).
As I said before though, that is the last thing you should try! Unlike
the other options there is the inevitability of getting caught, and
the fact that it's against the rules. So really I would not recommend
this except as a last resort, and if you *do* do it, choose a language
with low internet connectivity and a small speaker population overall.
--node
ps
Seriously, don't do that.
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:49:51 -0700, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, you have a number of different options.
The first and probably best would be to go to Wikipedia forks such as
Wikinfo and mcfly (ok, maybe not mcfly) and tell them how the folks at
the Wikimedia organisation are... well, describe your plight. Some
forks really hate the Wikimedia foundation and will feel very sorry
for you and assist you with such a project, whereas others seem to be
meant more to augment Wikipedia and their users still contribute to
Wikipedia on a regular basis.
Another option would be to pay for private hosting and set up the
MediaWiki software yourself, which I can tell you is not going to be
very pleasant if you're not experienced in setting up server-side
apps. You could probably also hire somebody to maintain the software
for you (often hosting companies will offer such services), but that's
just another additional cost.
The only other option I can think of at the moment is to use one of
the free wiki hosts available on the internet. Let me tell you in
advance, they all suck. Really, really suck. But obviously, they are
free so you don't have to pay anybody as you would in the second
scenario.
best,
node
ps
I thought the final decision was to go ahead and create ang:?
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:36:25 -0400, James R. Johnson
<modean52(a)comcast.net> wrote:
So, in the interest of the Anglo-Saxon wikipedia,
how do I, personally, set
it up outside the wikimedia foundation, so that I can get it started?
James
-----Original Message-----
From: wikipedia-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Evan Prodromou
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 2:16 AM
To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Starting a new wiki
Tim Starling wrote:
People underestimate the cost involved in setting
up a wiki.
Once again I'd like to point out that having a language-specific Wikipedia
is
not usually the best way to organize, promote, or develop a language.
It's probably much better for a group of interested people working on a
small or
endangered language to set up a general-purpose wiki that encompasses the
Wikimedia ideas of a Wikipedia, Wiktionary, a language-learning Wikibook,
and
perhaps a few other community- or discussion-oriented purposes.
There are a _lot_ of free or low-cost PHP hosting services that can host a
wiki.
Mediawiki can be hard to set up on these services, since MySQL usually costs
significantly more, but there are a number of other wiki engines* that work
with
flat files and don't require a database.
Anyways: I think the best strategy is to tell people who want to have a
Wikipedia in their language to go start a wiki somewhere else. If they can
show
that they have a robust community that can support a Wikipedia, then they
should
get an
xx.wikipedia.org domain (as well as other
xx.wikisomething.org
stuff).
~ESP
* I can hear it now: "Huh? There are other wiki engines? There are other
wikis?
I can set up my own? Huh?"
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