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| Newer page: | version 17 | Last edited on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 1:22:12 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 16 | Last edited on Thursday, October 6, 2005 4:11:25 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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[We start seriously thinking about an NZLUG theme|http://www.linux.net.nz/lists/NZLUG/2005/06/0264.html].
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- PerryLorier gets a "
sitemap.xml"
up for the wiki, so changes go into [Google]'s index within a day, and bandwidth due to crawling drops significantly.
+ PerryLorier gets a <tt>
sitemap.xml</tt>
up for the wiki, so changes go into [Google]'s index within a day, and bandwidth due to crawling drops significantly.
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[Committee meeting|CommitteeMeetingTopics.2005-06-20] moves to start porting our patches into the PhpWiki source so we can upgrade the latest version, and to [start the move|http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/wlug/2005-June/006919.html] toward WlugWikiRelicensing. We also move to approach [NZLUG] about putting up an NZLUG branded entrypoint into the Wiki.
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[InternetNZ|http://www.internetnz.co.nz/] hold an [online election forum|http://www.internetnz.co.nz/forum/]. Debate is held on [IRC]; at the spontaneous suggestion of DavidHallett, participants edit the [ICTDebate] page 44 times in just over 2 hours. Questions from this page are asked of the ICT candidates in the live debate.
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New NZLW wiki theme announced. Logo by CarlosVarela, design by CraigBox and Simon Bridge.
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+ CraigBox [creates the first version of this page | http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/wlug/2005-September/007178.html].
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+ Tintz Digital, the company that sponsors [Hoiho], moves to new premises with a new Internet connection from Telecom rather than TelstraClear, inadvertantly causing [connectivity issues | http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/wlug/2005-October/007330.html] to various parts of the InterNet.
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+ November |
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+ Because [Hoiho] is consuming about 13GB of monthly traffic, it is [ratelimited to 1 KB/s for international traffic | http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/wlug/2005-November/007517.html]. The WlugCommittee goes looking for a better location.
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+ Over this weekend, [Hoiho] moves from its location at Tintz Digital to the [Orcon] Internet datacentre. The move goes smoothly and the server has fully resumed its duties by Monday mid-morning according to plan.
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+ On behalf of the [WLUG], MattBrown [extends a big thank you to Tintz | http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/wlug/2005-November/007524.html] for their generous hosting of [Hoiho] to this point, and also to [Orcon] Internet for taking over the hosting.
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+2006 |
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+ March |
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+ An upgrade of the WlugWiki installation from an old 2002 version of PhpWiki to the current 1.3.11p1 release [is announced | http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/wlug/2006-March/007770.html], but not completed, because the server turns out not to have enough horsepower to sustain the new version. Tentative discussions about hardware upgrades begin.
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+ April |
+ The WlugCommittee starts a hardware sponsorship quest in order to replace [Hoiho], which has become a performance bottleneck, preventing upgrades to the WlugWiki software.
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+ May |
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+ [HP] NewZealand [responds to the sponsorship quest | http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/wlug/2006-May/007874.html] by providing an HP BL10e blade server equipped with five blades (512 [MB] [RAM] each) and a single disk.
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!!! PerryLorier's first-hand perspective
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One of the major things that the WlugWiki has going for it is a great culture. We have lots of people watching RecentChanges/RecentEdits like hawks, tidying up entries rapidly (cleaning up formatting, spelling, grammar, tpyos, misunderstandings and errors etc). We consistently have several edits a day, which means the wiki is steadily growing in size. We have a culture to wiki all answers to any question that comes up in case we ever need to know it again, or if we find a neat link to add it to the wiki so that others may find it and use it too. The wiki counts over 7000 pages, 3000 of which have been written from scratch by [those who have passed our very simple IQ test | Category:HomePage] of asking people for their name. (This seems to be extremely successful at thwarting spammers and those that shouldn't comment, although we still get lots of people who think that when we ask for someone's "real name" we mean something else.)
! Lessons learned:
-* Nothing beats wikis for taking notes. The low barrier to entry makes it easy to wiki a few lines here and there when you find the answer to a problem; it is what makes the wiki grow. Then people come and clean up the additions, annotate them and generally improve whatever you said. Anything more rigorous than asking for someone's name makes it too easy
to postpone the note-taking to "later", stifling growth.
+* Nothing beats wikis for taking notes. The low barrier to entry makes it easy to wiki a few lines here and there when you find the answer to a problem; it is what makes the wiki grow. Then people come and clean up the additions, annotate them and generally improve whatever you said. Anything more rigorous than asking for someone's name makes it too tempting
to postpone the note-taking to "later", stifling growth.
* The problem of abuse does arise sometimes, but by having a good culture of people who militantly look at every change (it's a great way to learn!) we very quickly see people who are stupid and revert their changes. Each page has a history kept for several days (or several revisions whatever is larger) so [nothing is ever truly lost | phpwiki:HomePage?action=PageHistory ].
* Don't try to be a [TLDP]/ManPage~s clone, as the WlugWiki was supposed to be. It never was. People use man(1) to read ManPage~s, and nobody reads official [TLDP] HowTo~s anymore, they use [Google] and find a page that sounds authoritative and follow that. So writing authoritative sounding pages works better than trying to update outdated [TLDP] HowTo~s.
