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[Václav S(milauer <eudoxos@xxxxxxxx>]

> 3SR now has a wiki for internal documentation about procedures and
> softwares.
> Recently, after I sent a link to Yade wiki to illustrate the use of a
> wiki, a colleague told me he was surprised to see commercial adds in it.
> I didn't notice those adds before because I have adblock plugin
> installed in firefox...
>
> I must admit this a bit annoying to see ads for cars and such in
> Yade's documentation.
> What do you think about moving the wiki to a 3SR server, or to another
> hosting service?
I would advice people to install adblock in the first place (although,
arguably, ads are what wikia.com makes living from, but I clicked on an
internet ad about once in my life, so I don't think it is necessarily an
issue).

Self-made hosting normally has uptime inferior to commercial hostings
(and that is not to say Remy is a bad admin, but they have redundancy on
all level, from power supply to servers, I imagine). I don't know of any
ad-free hosting commercial-grade service, though I haven't searched
(just by reasoning, they have to make money somehow). OTOH, having
hosting at 3SR would give us the benefit of greater flexibility and
storage for big files (like videos).

I was hoping that launchad.net will have wiki hosting service, which
could nicely consolidate scattered services we have now (launchpad for
bugs, packaging, mailing lists and mirroring code, berlios for svn and
wikia for wiki...). There is some demand for that (google: launchpad
wiki hosting) but nothing definitive for now unfortunately.

I think it can be tried, there are database dumps available somewhere
from wikia, which could be directly imported to mediawiki at 3sr, AFAIK.

Regards, vaclav