>If any of you were following the kerfuffle last week between Steven Black and me, it's on its way to being resolved.
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>If you weren't, in a fit of pique over an email he sent me, I requested a new wiki be created at
http://foxpro.wikia.com/, and they approved it. I filled in some content over the weekend so it isn't completely blank.
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>The argument has been made, with some validity, that attempting to start a new wiki is useless at best, and community-damaging at worst, as it splits the efforts of the contributors and requires. However, I'm not sure that it will hurt the community: more choice is rarely a bad thing, and the Wikia platform has several things to recommend it.
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>1) It's built on the MediaWiki engine, so it allows the same kind of markup, templates, and scripting that Wikipedia does.
>2) All Wikia wikis have to be licensed under the GFDL (GNU Free Documentation License), and show a complete edit history for all articles. (I love audit trails...)
>3) See
Why Use Wikia for these and a couple other reasons.
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>So, if you like, come check it out and add something: if not, don't. :-)
Welcome back, haven't seen you here for a while! I see you moved a few time zones away ;)
I didn't see any news of conflict between you and SB. Can you give us the gist, and why you started another wiki?
Regards. Al
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