[Air-L] AoIR Wiki Was: A suggestion for reading lists and syllabi
Benjamin J Birkinbine
bjb at uoregon.edu
Tue Aug 6 10:03:16 PDT 2013
Hello all,
I, too, would support the wiki. I'm always encouraged by the
discussion on this list, but I was looking for a better way to access
information from some of the discussions.
Having recently gone through the process of combing the MediaWiki
manual, I can tell you that the current anti-spam extensions are quite
good. Spam on my site was reduced to practically nothing. The current
version of MediaWiki being used for the AOIR site (1.16) is a bit
outdated. We could simply update the install, and then install the
necessary anti-spam extensions. The current AOIR install has no
extensions to prevent spam.
Let me know how I can help!
Ben Birkinbine
Ph.D. Candidate, Media Studies
University of Oregon
School of Journalism & Communication
On 2013-08-06 9:24, Alex Leavitt wrote:
> Just to throw in a bit of discussion: Alex, I would definitely like to
> know
> your thoughts on Wikia vs. our own install. Obviously spam is one
> issue.
> Easy of use (ie., markup language) is probably another. On the
> our-install
> side, I can think of three arguments: 1) not relying on a 3rd party
> (issues
> of access, especially if Wikia goes defunct somehow) 2), supporting
> open-source software, and 3) no ads.
>
> Personally, I'm still for the wiki.aoir.org install, but by creating a
> Wikia page without some kind of 'official' support of the org, I'm
> concerned efforts will be divided across both wikis (well, that is, if
> we
> can get new accounts on our own wiki...).
>
> I'm happy to volunteer, btw, to be the point person for helping create
> new
> accounts for people that need them.
>
> ---
>
> Alexander Leavitt
> PhD Student
> USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
> http://alexleavitt.com
> Twitter: @alexleavitt
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Jeremy hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20080421002111/http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
>> is a pretty good version of the prior wiki.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:45 AM, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Great Job Alex,
>>>
>>> I guess the http://wiki.aoir.org 's heyday was probably back in
>>> 2003-2005. It was and is a good idea to have a wiki, spamming
>>> aside, and
>>> yes i do still help maintain it sometimes on the old url. It would
>>> be
>> good
>>> to find a way to migrate some of the content from the old site to
>>> the new
>>> site though. I paid for some of of the content to be added to the
>>> wiki by
>>> one of my center assistants back in the day, the lists of
>>> researchers
>> and a
>>> few other things. Those sorts of things were handy and drew some
>>> traffic
>>> at the time. However, they slowly became dated i guess.
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>>
>>
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>> jeremy hunsinger
>> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
>> Virginia Tech
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