On 1/9/07, Richard Tew <richard.m.tew@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/07, John Arras <johnarras@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/5/07, Morris Cox < morriscox@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > My first (and second) thought is that it would be best for one person
> > > to get the foundation setup and going. If you have a committee do
that
> > > part, it'll take months if not years. Get the foundation in, start
> > > with your own knowledge, and then invite others. Your odds of success
> > > will also increase. Once you've done that, then you can see about
> > > using the material on this list..
> >
> > I started a wiki a month ago or so to organize my own thoughts. The
wiki was
> > very "me centric" and focused on dynamic worlds and procedural
generation,
> > so I wiped it and offer it up as a starting point. It's on one my
company's
> > web servers and the code is Wikka (easy to use..runs on LAMP) and the
> > website is
> >
> >
http://www.sandboxfarm.com/Wikka/
> >
> >
> > I will be posting there slowly over time, and will be making copies
of the
> > db available at intervals. It's currently open registration and
open editing
> > allowed, but if people do start using it, make sure that you let me
join the
> > betting pool for when those will have to be restricted.
>
> Please set up automated daily backups and make them available as they
> are made. It gives me as a potential contributor a sense of
> co-ownership of content and having participated in several resources
> which are no longer available, it removes the futile feeling that
> comes from not knowing whether you are wasting your time.
I agree with this. As my response below shows, it was only because Agora
is gone that I wanted to try this.
> Also I am not sure how close this wiki is supposed to be to what Agora
> was, but if it is at all similar, I think it is wrong not to at least
> contact Bruce Mitchener and try and obtain the Agora content to
> incorporate as a starter package. There were a lot of interesting
> ideas written up for it. Unless of course the opinion is think that
> Agora had nothing to offer or what it had to offer is of no value in
> the new wiki.
Ah, I didn't think to look at archive.org. I really had wanted to find
it to start working with it instead of starting over. Since it might be
possible to get that data, or maybe get it restarted, I would like to
try that first.
> The internet archive has at least some of its content for the purposes
> of assessing it:
>
http://web.archive.org/web/20050205011246/agora.cubik.org/wiki/view/Main/WebHome