Re: Apple II wiki

[Martin Doherty <martin.doherty@undisclosed.com>]

Gabriel,  I note that uploading is disabled.  While a lot can be 
accomplished with plain text, I foresee a future benefit to enabling 
this feature (e.g. photos) to enhance the articles in the wiki.

I plan to contribute some articles myself soon, so I've been thinking 
about just what sort of information repository this wiki could best 
become.  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.  Therefore 
it would certainly be beneficial to enable uploading of small files that 
support the article - jpeg images, source code as a downloadable text 
file - SHORT - not 10,000 lines of Pascal.   If someone has gone to the 
trouble of writing a complete telecommunications package in Pascal and 
wants to share the source code, it belongs at SourceForge or similar 
open source repository, but a wiki entry that describes and links to the 
other site would be completely appropriate.  I was thinking more like 
short Applesoft / Assembly / Pascal programs which illustrate a 
technique or performs a simple function, up to a few hundred lines long.

So, how is the storage situation?  Do you think it will be feasible any 
time to allow uploads, perhaps with a size limitation e.g. 20K?

Martin