On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 17:23 +0200, jdd wrote:
Bodo Bauer wrote:
So I set up a Wiki and planed to allow it to be edited by whoever feels like contributing.
very good idea :-)
however, I know (having done such things myself) that keeping a wiki with all the fuss of vandalism care and users not always so nice is not trivial.
I know. Been there as well. And if you checked the link you'll see that the edit functions are still turned off until I find the time to put all the content I have on the site and I get bit more experienced with the control mechanisms if MediaWiki. If anybody has this experience and wants to volunteer as comaintainer, please step up ... :)
So to make your work more visible I see two ways:
* make it a wikibook
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal
this will give it a very large audience, but not primarily technical. I don't know for sure the licence there, but this could be the best way to keep some part of the licence with you
That looks interesting, thanks for the link.
* put it on opensuse (or ask us to do so). Like this the licence go to Novell. This has avantages and drawbacks. advantages as if somebody try to copy it and restrict licence on the result, Novell is better armed to fight it, drawback if ever you want to take it back.
I'm very reluctant to sign give up rights to big corporations. And Novell doesn't really make a difference here. As with every publicly traded company, it's hard to trust anything in this environment...
of course, for now and opensuse, the second option is far better :-).
of course we can stay on your wiki (with a link from us), but I fear you get far less readers/authors
If that's the trade-off, I'm willing to pay... BB