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Subject:Re: Vanagon Wiki [WAS: Curious incident of the fuel pump ...]
From:Michael Elliott
Date:Thu, 2 Aug 2007 07:51:44 -0700

Hi John,

All four software requirements are important ones. Bummer nothing good
exists. What happens if the requirement for "free" is lifted? Maybe a
handful of listees could pony up a few bucks each to make this thing happen?

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

John Bange typed:
>> Yes. Where's that Vanagon wiki -- who was gonna try to get that up and
>> running? -- where this can be filed where someone on the road can easily
>> find it?
>
>
> That was me (hangs head in shame) . The project has stalled for lack of a
> decent wiki software that fulfills the four critical requirements: 1) free,
> 2) runs under Linux, 3) has a WYSIWYG editor rather than byzantine wiki
> markup for article layout, and 4) has an easy method of dumping the whole
> thing to HTML so as to make putting it on CDROM possible. The closest I've
> found is MediaWiki (like Wikipedia uses), but the WYSIWYG editor is an
> unreliable hack, and the HTML dump is even worse. Still looking though.
>
> --
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
>