[r-t] Ringing Wiki

[John Camp]

At 18:51 on 04 August 2008, Graham John wrote:

> JEC wrote:
>  
>> As I have made quite clear, I would like the wiki to be more efficient,
>> but it is what is provided by the server hosts.  I simply don't have the
>> technical skills to run anything more advanced.  If anyone wants to take
>> the wiki over, and move it to a different format, then I shall be
>> delighted.

>> Graham?

> Yes, I am happy to set up and host a MediaWiki wiki. I think that we can
> take
> advantage of its superior functionality and presentation features to present
> information more attractively, with use of diagrams, photos and variety of
> formatting. I would like to make it more accessible to the less computer
> literate ringers and researchers, and I hope that the better functionality
> may encourage more editors of articles to come forward and increase the
> information available. As mentioned, the ability to add discussion on 
> individual pages would also be useful for some of the current topics. 

> It would be ideal to maintain a set of definitions for technical terms used
> in
> change ringing, methods, composition etc that I have been suggesting.

> I'll try and set it up this week and start to copy some content across if
> you
> Are OK with that.

Entirely.  Just what I wanted.

JEC