[Mediawiki-l] free wiki hosting?

[Jens Ropers]

I think that's a fantastic offer and extremely cool of you.
I think, yes, there will likely be some demand -- as regards myself I 
don't know yet though, because I'm still kinda hoping I'll eventually 
figure out MediaWiki customization and get to install it on my 
domain/hosting account.

If I were you however, I'd be careful about overpromising -- I prolly 
wouldn't say: "Guys, I offer free wiki hosting till kingdom come." but 
rather: "I am currently in a position to offer free wiki hosting and 
you're very welcome to join, however pls be aware that there are no 
guarantees as regards the future." That's because you never know how 
things will develop. And if you promise an "always free" service and 
subsequently have to retract that, people will accuse you of baiting 
and switching -- the same thing that happened to Apple with their 
iTools service.

It would also be interesting to know if what you have to offer  could 
help/be offered to Wikimedia projects. Forgive me my Wikimed-snobbery 
but I actually kinda think it would do much  more good to support 
Wikimedia project x than hosting Joe, Jane and Ed's vanity wikis.

-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]]
     www.ropersonline.com

On 25 Oct 2004, at 15:18, Michael wrote:

> I have a lot of spare server space and bandwidth and was considering 
> offering free (or cheap?) wiki hosting. It seems to me that if you 
> don't allow uploading of images to the wiki, and serving those images 
> back out, that a wiki shouldn't eat up a huge amount of bandwidth. 
> Would such free hosting be useful or are there already a lot of places 
> offering that? I wouldn't insert ads or anything annoying like that - 
> I just like providing community resources. Thanks.
>
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> Michael <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu>
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