[Air-L] AoIR Wiki Was: A suggestion for reading lists and syllabi

[Benjamin J Birkinbine]

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outdated.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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>> 
>> 
>> --
>> jeremy hunsinger
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>> Virginia Tech
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