On Mon, 22 May 2006 15:31:22 GMT, Ignoramus18798 wrote:
The bad thing about hosting a separate wiki, as you note, is that if
the host loses interest, dies or runs out of money, it would go down.

Right.

The good thing about it is that we can discuss topics that would
likely be removed by wikipedia community as too specialized, such as
fine points of metalworking.

Right.

The issue of the wiki page depending on one person can be mitigated by
publishing the wiki database snapshot, this way it can be reproduced
elsewhere with a minimum of damage.

Good point. I've got hosting, obviously you do too. (who are you using
by the way? I just signed up for a quarter with dotster and will see
how it goes, but dreamhost looks pretty damn good too.

So, mediawiki, eh? I should see if I have that as an easy option for
what I'm doing. If so, I wouldn't mind mirroring what you do if you set
it up (or even just doing offsite backups of a dump you schedule).
If the group wants to go forward, I've got the resources and it won't
cost anyone anything.

Dave