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Re: Website recommendation..

Posted by Patrick Dinnen on Jun 14, 2007; 6:10pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Data-reseller-would-benefit-from-Free-no-cost-Access-for-citizens-to-Public-Data-tp1085p1093.html

I agree with the proposal for a two part web presence:
1) a blog, 'branded' as something other than civicaccess.ca, but linked to from it.
2) a captcha enabled, spam-proof wiki. (captchas being those slightly annoying, but less so than spam, 'tell us what word is in this image before you can edit' widgets you see all over the web now).

For the reasons Gabe, Michael and others have mentioned. i.e. wikis and blogs serve quite different purposes, information repository for a wiki versus topical and largely transient news and views on a blog. And a blog under the civicaccess.ca umbrella would likely need some editorial policy, but outside the umbrella means it can be up and running quickly and relatively easily.

I'm happy to offer assistance with setting up a new wiki, particularly moving some of the good (pre-spam) content over to the new wiki.

The current civicaccess.ca site is hosted on the Community Bandwidth servers, space kindly donated by Phillip Smith. However Phillip is phasing out the hosting side of his business, so we need to find an alternate home. Where that home is I don't have any strong preference.

Patrick

On 6/14/07, Gabe Sawhney <[hidden email]> wrote:
I agree that a wiki is more suited to civicaccess than a blog.  (A blog is a good idea, but should perhaps go under a different name, for the reasons Mike listed.)

I am willing to install a captcha-enabled wiki software next week, either on the existing server, or host it on mine.

If no one objects, and the person in control of the server and/or domain name can get in touch with me, it will be done.

Gabe


On 6/14/07, Hugh McGuire <<img style="border: medium none ; cursor: pointer;" title="send email to h.mcguire@sympatico.ca via gmail" src="data:image/bmp;base64,Qk1GAgAAAAAAADYAAAAoAAAAEAAAAAsAAAABABgAAAAAABACAADEDgAAxA4AAAAAAAAAAAAAODjaODjap6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5ODjaODjaODjaODja4uL%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F4uL%2FODjaODjaODjaODjap6f54uL%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F4uL%2Fp6f5ODjaODjaODjaODja4uL%2Fp6f54uL%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FgYHygYHy%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F4uL%2Fp6f54uL%2FODjaODjaODjaODja%2F%2F%2F%2F4uL%2Fp6f5trb%2FgYHyWlrpWlrpgYHytrb%2Fp6f54uL%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FODjaODjaODjaODja%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2Ftrb%2FgYHyWlrpODjaODjaWlrpgYHytrb%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FODjaODjaODjaODja%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FgYHyWlrpODjatrb%2Ftrb%2FODjaWlrpgYHy%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FODjaODjaODjaODja%2F%2F%2F%2FgYHyWlrpODjatrb%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2Ftrb%2FODjaWlrpgYHy%2F%2F%2F%2FODjaODjaODjaODjagYHyWlrpODjatrb%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2Ftrb%2FODjaWlrpgYHyODjaODjaODjaODjaODjaODjatrb%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2Ftrb%2FODjaODjaODjaODjaODjaODjaODjagYHyp6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5p6f5gYHyODjaODjaODja"> [hidden email]> wrote:
we've had 2 different responses to "have a blog"
-mike lenczner says: it should not be directly related to <a href="http://civicaccess.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">civicaccess.ca (ie it should have a different domain)
-others say we should set one up for the project...

in any case the wiki is clearly not a useful tool anymore - whatever good content was there has long since been turned into spam.



On Jun 14, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Russell McOrmond wrote:


Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
I of course spoke to her about <a href="http://civicaccess.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">civicaccess.ca and she is willing to be 
interviewed for our blog should we get one.

   I suggest that in the interim that the WIKI be closed so that the  
existing site won't harm the reputation of our movement.

   I've removed previous references to  
<a href="http://civicaccess.ca/wiki/PostalCodes" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://civicaccess.ca/wiki/PostalCodes as it, like most pages on the  
site, are just SPAM.   The site should either require passwords for 
editing or be closed.   I understand that there isn't volunteer  
resources at this point, which is why I'm recommending it be closed.

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