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

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On 22 Sep 2010, at 10:09 AM, Fred H Olson wrote:

> 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.

Mediawiki seems clearly to be the software to use. The problem is figuring out 
whether I can handle the leap from software to content. The vocabulary is mind 
bending. It's get out your dictionary every minute. When all work on a webpage 
had to be coded in html, it was coders only. Now knowing code helps but it 
isn't necessary. Wordpress has it's own language but there are lots of guides 
written in plain English and when the language gets tough you can back off and 
do something another way. 

With MediaWiki I haven't been able to determine if I put in the time I will be 
able to accomplish the task without out blowing my neuro-circuits, putting all 
my other projects totally behind schedule, and not accomplishing anything 
anyway.

Another problem with Google Sites is that our people have to have Google 
Accounts to use it. Our people are just up to their ears in accounts and 
passwords.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
"Logic will get you from A to B.  Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert 
Einstein