From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KtFR9-0002Vx-AF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:42:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 043EAE03A5; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:42:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from exprod7og106.obsmtp.com (exprod7og106.obsmtp.com [64.18.2.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BA91E03A5 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from source ([209.85.200.171]) by exprod7ob106.postini.com ([64.18.6.12]) with SMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:42:10 PDT Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 26so738947wfd.32 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.12.20 with SMTP id p20mr773347wfi.301.1224826930243; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.51.12 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <65ac40810232242p3fed5e4dvde1bdbecc20745fe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:42:10 -0700 From: "Nick Pappin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com - Needs your help! In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Archives-Salt: 6eb284c7-59d7-4630-a823-c11fccab74da X-Archives-Hash: 3ee2739fe5617a6bb47f96a4eab2f244 I would second all of this I use gentoo-wiki almost everyday and it is killing me that it isnt up. I think this would be a great service if we can give it to the community. -- W. Nick Pappin IT Staff Latah Federal Credit Union 208.874.4394 On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Steven Susbauer wrote: > deface wrote: >> >> I am reaching out to the community in search of someone, or someone >> who may know someone at either TEL-X (http://www.telx.com) >> or 56Marietta (http://www.56marietta.com). I'm sure everyone on this ML >> is aware that wiki is down. It may not concern some of you, as >> it is not an official documentation site; but for the rest of us, it is >> a very helpful resource. You can read the current status of the wiki as >> thrasher7 (Mike Valstar - mikevalstar@gmail.com) blogs it. Our >> options are stated, but we hope to find another through >> this e-mail. If anyone has any sort of contact with anyone at either of >> these locations, please let me or Mike know. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> deface > > The Gentoo-Wiki and Gentoo-Portage pages are unofficial, but it would be > very nice if Gentoo was able to provide its own wiki service (and > Gentoo-Portage-like thing, packages.gentoo.org is nowhere near as > useful), possibly working with Mike on an official basis. I've always > been curious why the Foundation is passing up a great opporitunity to > have a lot of good, community based documentation especially for > projects and setups that Gentoo itself does not provide documentation > for, as well as an easy frontend for reading all about different ebuilds. > > I am unfortunately unable to help with this predicament though plan on > putting in a donation once the sites are up. It does appear he was able > to get in touch with TelX so hopefully everything gets up and running > quickly. > > -Steve > > > >