VMs: Re: Voynich Wikis

[Ed Romana <erom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Dear Ted and List,

I agree with the proposition that: 
...effective collaboration and information archival is tough...

My first vote would be to have the entire contents of all the 
messages of our vms-list as a precompiled database search object
to allow for fast boolean searches.   

I never cease to be impressed with with the clever novelty of the VMS decoding 
strategies and features that can be cast on the source Voynich Beinecke data. 
I would suppose that each would deserve an index table entry.
I am told that the success of Google is that elements of the search result list 
"bubble" up to the the top of the result list according to the number of hits,  
except for those boolean query phrases that return very few elements 
in the search result list. 


Best regards 
Ed Romana

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At 08:03 PM 1/14/2004, you wrote:
>Hail to the list.
>
>Effective collaboration and information archival is tough to pull off.  The
>person that invents the perfect solution to integrate
>databases/documents/images/email/fax/voice/logs/etc will become the richest
>person in the world.  :->
>
>I think the proposed solution of a wiki is not a bad idea, and, as I
>mentioned earlier, I would be happy to offer my assistance.
>
>If the list is seriously interested in using a wiki as a collaboration
>mechanism, then I would like to propose we start moving forward.  Here would
>be the steps involved:
>
>1. Finding a good wiki (very hard, see my research notes below).
>2. Finding a server to host it with enough drive space/bandwidth (any
>offers?).
>3. Find someone to be in charge of it (moderators, maintainers, etc).
>4. Getting people to start putting stuff in it.
>5. Consider integrating e-list with wiki (generally not hard to do).
>
>Ok, I have done some research on various Wikis.  None of the ones we use at
>work seem to fit the need here.  I am looking for a wiki with the following
>features:
>
>1. Simple authoring and formatting mark-up.
>2. Images and file attachments.
>3. Searching.
>4. Account required to post changes (public read only).
>
>Strangely, it was very hard to find an open source implementation that had
>direct support for file uploads/image attachments.  Now, these are my
>requirements based on my vague understanding of the list's requirements.
>They were general guidelines.  Let me know if there are any important
>features I missed.
>
>
>MoinMoin
>
>PROS:
>A mature product.
>Supports images and files.
>Formatting syntax is very flexible.
>Supports searching.
>Very complete help.
>
>
>CONS:
>Formatting syntax is very ugly.
>Written in Python which may make it hard to host on some servers.
>Authentication is very new and may not be complete yet.
>I am not confident that this solution will perform well with enormous
>content.
>
>
>URL:
>http://twistedmatrix.com/wiki/moin/HelpContents
>
>
>Well, I was hoping to have more to list, but I just cannot find any open
>source wikis that support image uploads.  Unfortunately, there are so many
>wikis, that I may have missed a really good one.  Let me know.
>
>
>Ted Young
>
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