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michael
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Re: Wikispaces is closing down
« Reply #23 on: Mar 29th, 2018, 12:28am » |
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Quote:| In this particular case by RWTH Aachen University, who probably make available their server(s) for this 'educational' purpose. Incidentally it doesn't take any "figuring out" |
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I knew you would find a solution. And offering the documentation to the electronic libraries could give it that life you wish for it. ( as in the libraries that students use)
It did cross my mind that the university of Cambridge or some other educational entity would be interested in preserving the documentation and BBCSDL, as it has significant history. You after all, are responsible for BBC Basic making it this far. The older version of BBC Basic would have been forgotten along with other extinct languages that only have a mention in Wikipedia. (like Turbo Pascal )
( I just had a thought worthy of editing ... Wikipedia (you know the BBC Basic For Windows and perhaps BBCSDL in a sense could be hosted if properly arranged in the documentation.. (lol) I don't know if Wikipedia would care about such a large modification to the BBC Basic info. I take it there are rules.)
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Richard Russell
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Re: Wikispaces is closing down
« Reply #24 on: Mar 29th, 2018, 08:30am » |
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on Mar 29th, 2018, 12:28am, michael wrote:| I knew you would find a solution. |
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Solution to what? You asked who was hosting the wiki to which you linked, so I found out and told you. We still have a need to move the BB4W wiki somewhere.
Or maybe not. Now that Conforums has announced it is closing we perhaps need to reassess the need for online support. Personally I would be happy to concentrate my resources on Facebook.
I am certainly not going to bother to replace this forum, but it will be interesting to see what the main BB4W forum chooses to do.
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Re: Wikispaces is closing down
« Reply #25 on: Mar 29th, 2018, 10:31pm » |
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Using facebook as the group management, I could use One Drive to create a forum using a program I was thinking of modifying my Que Card text program to work like a forum. Of course, it would require some expansion, as at the moment it only carries one board (in theory)
All a person would need to do is save the data file to their One Drive (Microsoft) and provide a link so I can see any changes that a person creates)
With One Drive, if the same text file is used, any changes to that text file will work with the same link. ( I tested it)
Of course the forum would be by invitation and of course they would need BBC Basic For Windows (Trial or Full version) to keep everything working smooth on a One Drive file.
Once all the kinks are worked out, anyone could essentially moderate it with a special moderator program I would provide.
So DDRM, or David Williams or Richard, if you are interested, I would like to do a bit of trials.
I know this will work. And a member can be created on Facebook and can join the cloud group. I have already created the Programming group on Facebook, but didn't expect this to happen. So sad.
Here is a link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/523357661397543
I know this is not exactly the solution you were looking for, but it is a step forward and One Drive is Microsoft so it should be around in the long term future.... Feel free to join the Facebook group.
Another note: I think I found a way to make Facebook work like a forum. (pics of code and links to the text file)
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Re: Wikispaces is closing down
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on Mar 29th, 2018, 10:31pm, michael wrote:| I know this is not exactly the solution you were looking for, but it is a step forward and One Drive is Microsoft so it should be around in the long term future |
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I can't see a home-made forum (programmed in BBC BASIC or anything else) being a viable option. I suspect this is another example of your enthusiasm for reinventing the wheel slightly losing touch with reality!
Let's wait and see what the BB4W forum chooses to do; it may be that we can hang on their coat-tails (it's a much larger forum, based on 'raw' membership numbers, than this one). I've suggested to its administrator that it could even create an opportunity to 'heal the rift'.
Failing that, losing both wikispaces.com and conforums.com does free up some money (Wikispaces started charging a few years ago, and Conforums have always charged to remove advertisements) which could go towards a paid-for hosting solution if that looks like the most sensible option.
Facebook remains a possibility (I already have three groups, currently unused but 'waiting in the wings') but I do worry that the age-profile of BBC BASIC users means that fewer are members of Facebook than the population at large, and recent revelations haven't exactly allayed any privacy concerns people may have.
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