Re: Apple II wiki

["Gabriel" <usenet@gamoe.net>]

Martin, Warren, and everyone else interested: Uploading has been
enabled. Size is limited to 800 x 600 px. Let me know if you have any
limit problems, or if you think this should be increased.

Martin Doherty wrote:

> It doesn't strike me as a good place to store books, videos,
> software disk images etc. (at least initially), since this would explode
> the storage requirements and hosting costs.  I see it as more like an
> unbounded set of magazine articles and reference information, composed
> of prose, code snippets, code listings, screenshots, photos.

I think you have the right idea. As Warren has suggested, think of this
as an encyclopedia... which has volumes and sections on different
topics pertaining to the main subject, but would not include separate
whole videos or books on the subjects, but mentions and maybe snippets
of it.

For example, an encyclopedia on Heaven and Hell would include mentions
and a description of Dante's Inferno, maybe even illustrations and
snippets, but certainly not the entire work!

PZ wrote:

> Hey Gabriel, nice resource.

Thank you, PZ. :-) It's thanks to the community here that it's becoming
such a great resource now, though.

> Now here is an idea, please don't take it as stepping on your toes, I
> know you've put a lot of work into the Apple II Guide and thus you may
> want to keep some of your material propriatary, rightfully so.

PZ, not that you're "stepping on my toes", but I think we should
concentrate on making this happen on our own, without the aid of the
Wikimedia Foundation.

Funding and storage shouldn't be a problem for now, and I think we can
handle any foreseeable costs.

The site itself should be under an "Open-Source" like license, so you
should be free to copy it to your own site as long as you give credit
to the original site and authors (not just me). Feel free to open a
dialog on the wiki. I check the recent changes page often.

As for my old site, I don't see any reason to maintain it now that we
have the wiki, which is that and so much more already.

Thanks,

Gabriel