On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 00:53 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
I think you'll find that everyone will say they want the moon on a stick, but no-one will commit to holding that stick up for very long!
This is a problem, I guess it's easy enough for us to get all excited about a new shiny site, but if nobody has enough spare time to sort it then we are better off fixing what we have for now.
What should go on the site? At the moment, there's three sections (background, meetings and venues) and some pages and subsites, some of which need updating, moving or culling.
I have mentioned it before but it was halfway down a post on an unrelated subject so I think it got ignored. Is the Wiki known to be broken at the moment ? I tried to edit the contrib area to add some kit and a venue type thing I can offer and I get Errors like this one
Warning: fopen(./pages/archive/DemosOfferedDemosWanted): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/alug/web/contrib/lib/db_filesystem.php on line 104
Is the Wiki broken (intentionally or not) or am I doing something stupid (like not reading some instructions somewhere)
I had the same problem the other week when I was trying to update the Library book list to reflect the location of the Online Library.
I don't like the suggestion that the whole site be a wiki. The wiki has been the most time-consuming part to maintain since it was introduced, it's been less and less useful and then it got thoroughly attacked when I'd not enough time to deal with it (so big thanks to Darren Casey and others for stepping in). I'd be delighted if it can be renovated, but I think it's not a good way to run the whole site.
Agreed.
ALUG has a problem that when people get busy, they often get too busy to hand over tasks. If all webmasters of the current site die, it would just sit there, going out-of-date. If all webmasters of a wiki die, it usually gets exploited and trashed.
Yes this is true, Often it is difficult for us to predict our workloads (or it is for me anyway) For example I have done far less with the Library than I had hoped, but I didn't know how busy I was going to be this year. I don't want to hand it over to someone else because I do have plans for it that eventually I will find time for.
By the way, the Shropshire LUG site suggested as a nice design also has double navigation, error messages and "search-engine unfriendly" URLs -
Fair points, I noticed the breakage after my last post, but I think the general concept of delegated responsibility for different pages may work. If the editing system was smooth enough that changes could be quickly made I would happily take responsibility for a few of the pages.
Another thing I don't like much about Wiki's is that situation we had a while ago where some list member (can't remember who for sure) had put some derogatory comments about another lug and the resulting argument that broke out on the Lug.