Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Wikis (was Research database?)

[ken (gebser]

Becky Weaver wrote:
> Thank you, Molly! I will pass your compliments on to the guy
> responsible for setting up & maintaining our wiki.
> 
> We have not been 100% thrilled with Wikihost. After a lot of
> research, we decided we preferred Mediawiki, which is the engine
> behind Wikipedia. However by that time our wiki had gotten so big
> that it was going to be a major undertaking to migrate to Mediawiki.
> So to date, we've stayed with Wikihost.

You're experiencing the good fun of the trial-and-error method, what
that eighty hours of discussion should have avoided.


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> We also sprung for a calendar program, Calcium Calendar, which has
> made creating and updating our community calendar, previously a
> difficult & thankless job, a collaborative & relatively painless
> process. It cost about $100. Anybody with a login & password can
> update the calendar, so changes and additions get made by the person
> who knows the most about what's going on. This has renedered our
> calendar an extremely useful communication tool. It's at:
> http://www.austincohousing.org/calendar.html.

There's a fairly nice calendaring system with all the features you
mentioned available and a few more for free in yahoo groups.


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> Becky Weaver Central Austin Cohousing/Kaleidoscope Village
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