Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Wiki's again

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

On 9/21 Sharon Villines wrote:

> We are now using Google Sites which is fabulous but I'm becoming
> uncomfortable about using a service over which we have no control.

Sharon, I also am reluctant to depend on a ISP etc that I don't
completely trust.  (My trust of Google varies from day to day...)

But maintaining a server is a pain for most of us.  Keeping a backup
copy of data is a good step.  I dont know about backing up Google
wiki data.

It occurs to me that an alternative is to use a trusted ISP.
I wonder if it might be possible to use http://wiki.ic.org
for what you want to do.  I trust FIC folks tho I so not know how
competent their current admin folks are.  Anyone know?
They use Mediawiki that Moz talked about.  It has the advantage
of being familiar to most folks on the net.
I do not know how easy it is to export one's data.

Fred  who has thought aboout porting the data from the
 moribund http://wiki.cohousing.org to  http://wiki.ic.org
 and removing the former but have not.

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