Re: Invitation to new 'conlang' wiki

Hi!

Philip Newton writes:
>...
> > IMO, having several distinct, and even distinctive, wikis
> > available for the world to tap into conlanging has to be
> > A Good Thing.  The more the merrier, I say.
>
> To me, it seems a bit like having several World Wide Webs ... some
> information is in CompuServer internal forums, some available under
> AOL keywords, some via URLs... a bit like having some information on
> WikiA, some on WikiB, some on WikiC, with "internal" linking being
> difficult and probably all but nonexistent.
In general, I think distributed information is better since you're not
hit so severely by data loss or server crashes.

In this case, a common index of all conlang Wikis would be great,
though.  And probably mirrors.

And an off-line Wiki snapshot. :-) In particular, I hate online
dictionaries that don't allow me to download a snapshot.  The fear of
sudden and eternal server outage is very valid.  In a thousand years
I'm sure there will be no bit of information left if it is organised
in online services as it is now.  (Furthermore, my standard Unix tools
are usually much more capable of searching the data base than the web
interfaces.)  Too few dictionaries share their data base, though.  A
pity!

**Henrik