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@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