Re: VMs: Re: Voynich Wikis

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ted,

At 23:03 14/01/2004 -0500, Ted Young wrote:
> If the list is seriously interested in using a wiki as a collaboration
> mechanism, then I would like to propose we start moving forward.

IMO, there are only two important kinds of Wiki:-
(1) Wikis which have no edit history at all (like 99% of hand-rolled Wikis)
(2) Wikis which retain a full edit history (like all the Wikipedia family)

Basically, my recommended solution would be to colonise a corner of 
Wikipedia (or WikiSource, or WikiBooks, or even the emerging WikiVersity - 
in fact, any one of the MediaWiki group). But probably the closest to what 
Pam & Rene were describing would be to start a "virtual textbook" on the 
Voynich on WikiBooks:
        http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page:English

In fact, because this is really easy to go and do, I've just gone and done 
it:-  :-)
        http://wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Voynich_Manuscript

I've given the new page the bare minimum of structure - but what do you think?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

PS: you can upload (or refer to external) pictures with this, all edits are 
retained, you can edit part of a page (rather than the whole page), 
username and password for users help identify edits, you can view edit 
logs, etc. The MediaWiki family really rocks! :-)


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