John, this is awesome. I will prod you (I have my calendar now set to
prod me to prod you repeatedly until one of us cries "uncle!").

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John Bange typed:
> On 8/2/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Since I know nothing of wikis I can certainly offer my uninformed
>> opinion that twiki looks at first glance to do everything we'd want
>> except for not having an HTML dump. But there appears to be a $hitload
>> of add-ons and plugins that have already been written for it and maybe
>> such a feature is already available. Or someone a lot smarter than me
>> could write one.
>
>
>
>   When I initially started  "shopping" for wiki software I had Twiki
> suggested by a friend, but at the time it didn't support WYSIWYG editing,
> which was a total deal killer.  After playing with MediaWiki and writing a
> few dozen test pages, I found that writing the articles in that tedious wiki
> markup language was a real drag. I note that with Twiki this has since
> changed! Upon further examination, it also has the capacity to publish to
> static HTML. That, combined with the "free" and "Linux" thing make it look
> pretty good. I'll "run it up the flagpole" on my test server this weekend if
> I have time. Or sometime next week, at the latest. Either way, keep prodding
> me. My wife says I have far more "good ideas" than I have time or energy to
> see through, so I tend to push one project after another onto the back
> burner (just ask Maggie Dew how long it's been since I promised to send her
> a speedometer, which I only mailed just yesterday).
>   At any rate, this is something that I've long thought would be useful. I
> have a collection of random information ready to post when the wiki is up,
> and I don't care where it's hosted. I'll point the "www.vanagonwiki.net"
> domain at whoever wants it, if they want it bad enough to put the wiki up.
> I'll work on getting my server up either way.
>
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> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
>