
Hi everyone, At the last WLUG committee meeting, we discussed the topic of the "NZLUG view" into the WLUG wiki. The issue is that we have a very complete archive of Linux knowledge related to New Zealand that some people incorrectly believe "you have to be a WLUG member to use". The WLUG committee are committed to making our wiki useful and accessible to everyone, while retaining its identity as "the official WLUG website". We would like the wiki to be relevant to all of NZ's Linux users, not just those involved with WLUG or NZLUG. We also respect that much of the content has specific relevance to only New Zealand. Much discussion took place on the various options to rectify this situation, with the two main options being: * Remove the "NZLUG view" until a national organisation is in place * Rebrand the "NZLUG view" as a New Zealand Linux Wiki, now The committee decided that the first option may send the wrong signals regarding our intentions, and has therefore decided to offer the alternative view under the tentative name of "New Zealand Linux Wiki", and publicise it to all New Zealand LUGs. Feel free to check out the modified site at http://wiki.linux.net.nz/. Comments are welcome (offlist in the first instance please). Regards Craig

* Remove the "NZLUG view" until a national organisation is in place * Rebrand the "NZLUG view" as a New Zealand Linux Wiki, now
The committee decided that the first option may send the wrong signals regarding our intentions, and has therefore decided to offer the alternative view under the tentative name of "New Zealand Linux Wiki", and publicise it to all New Zealand LUGs.
Feel free to check out the modified site at http://wiki.linux.net.nz/. Comments are welcome (offlist in the first instance please).
I didn't even know there was a "NZLUG view" of the Wiki. Though I've now had a look at it and it looks like a good idea. I would suggest that WLUG Wiki is one of the best resources for Linux users in NZ. The homepage perhaps needs to be improved though. Same goes for the WLUG Wiki homepage actually. Regards -- Oliver Jones <oliver(a)deeperdesign.com> Deeper Design

I didn't even know there was a "NZLUG view" of the Wiki. Though I've now had a look at it and it looks like a good idea. I would suggest that WLUG Wiki is one of the best resources for Linux users in NZ. The homepage perhaps needs to be improved though. Same goes for the WLUG Wiki homepage actually.
How would you improve it? What would you change? There are ~7400 pages in the wiki, over 2000 of them are written by us.

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 23:11 +1200, Perry Lorier wrote:
I didn't even know there was a "NZLUG view" of the Wiki. Though I've now had a look at it and it looks like a good idea. I would suggest that WLUG Wiki is one of the best resources for Linux users in NZ. The homepage perhaps needs to be improved though. Same goes for the WLUG Wiki homepage actually.
How would you improve it? What would you change? There are ~7400 pages in the wiki, over 2000 of them are written by us.
I'm not entirely sure. I guess I'd just visually partition it more and make it more or a categorised "bullet point" front page. It was just a general disgruntlement. Don't take too much meaning from it. :) Regards

* Drew Broadley <drew(a)corrupt.co.nz> [2005-08-07 22:55]:
Use WikiBB ;)
Have you seen [Markdown][1]? It’s the ultimate in the “formatted plaintext markup” category. I do have some issues with it, but I suppose everyone’s got their own bikesheds. [1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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A. Pagaltzis
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Craig Box
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Drew Broadley
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Oliver Jones
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Perry Lorier