[BLU/Officers] BLU Wiki, HH sub-wiki Re: Has it only been a decade?

[Bill Ricker]

Would GAF & JABR want wiki editor authorization,  in order to have access
to update linked pages?
No one has touched anything since rescue import.

We had 3 members request wiki membership immediately in 2018, but they've
done nothing either!

/ bill

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 20:50 Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> When Tom, Greg, and I rescued the doomed BLU and BPM wikis, the *Hardware
> Hacking* page was indeed salvaged.
> The URL didn't convert exactly since it's a different engine.
> New URL is  https://blu.qualitybox.us/blu/Hardware_Hacking
> or http://wiki.blu.org/blu/Hardware_Hacking
> (The seemingly redundant /blu/ is required for Greg's multi-homed wiki
> code, since it can't see the Hostname requested in his set-up. Until he
> redoes the code.  Which means wiki.blu.org/bpm/ and boston.pm.org/blu/
> will ^work^ sort-of ugh. Don't do that :-D )
>
> All Tom and I did was rescue the unmaintained BLU pages.
> I've done some weeding on the Boston PM side of course.
>
> If Kurt or Federico or Brian want to maintain the HH wiki page(s) in an HH
> reboot, we can get a Wiki login for an additional admin.
>
> // Bill
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 5:47 PM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>
>> That's right, I had forgotten about that. The navigation links on the BLU
>> website point to the qualitybox wikis. I'm not aware of anyone actively
>> maintaining them.
>>
>> Looks like the BLU home wiki still works, but the Hardware Hacking wiki
>> is broken; it's showing an error about a missing upgrade key.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 4:53 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 16:16 John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Looks like wikispaces.com as a whole has evaporated.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh has it?
>>> We (Tom, Greg, and I) moved both wikis a while ago, when they warned
>>> they were shutting down free access.
>>>
>>> https://blu.qualitybox.us/blu/Home
>>>
>>> https://bpm.qualitybox.us/bpm/
>>> (Which aliases as http://boston.pm.org/bpm/ )
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is why I prefer to keep our stuff locally on our own servers.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It's tradeoffs all the way down, but I quite understand that!
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>
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