[MUD-Dev2] The Great Mud Survey

[Richard Tew]

On 1/7/07, John Arras <johnarras at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/5/07, Morris Cox <morriscox at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My first (and second) thought is that it would be best for one person
> > to get the foundation setup and going. If you have a committee do that
> > part, it'll take months if not years. Get the foundation in, start
> > with your own knowledge, and then invite others. Your odds of success
> > will also increase. Once you've done that, then you can see about
> > using the material on this list..
>
> I started a wiki a month ago or so to organize my own thoughts. The wiki was
> very "me centric" and focused on dynamic worlds and procedural generation,
> so I wiped it and offer it up as a starting point. It's on one my company's
> web servers and the code is Wikka (easy to use..runs on LAMP) and the
> website is
>
> http://www.sandboxfarm.com/Wikka/
>
>
> I will be posting there slowly over time, and will be making copies of the
> db available at intervals. It's currently open registration and open editing
> allowed, but if people do start using it, make sure that you let me join the
> betting pool for when those will have to be restricted.

Please set up automated daily backups and make them available as they
are made.  It gives me as a potential contributor a sense of
co-ownership of content and having participated in several resources
which are no longer available, it removes the futile feeling that
comes from not knowing whether you are wasting your time.

Also I am not sure how close this wiki is supposed to be to what Agora
was, but if it is at all similar, I think it is wrong not to at least
contact Bruce Mitchener and try and obtain the Agora content to
incorporate as a starter package.  There were a lot of interesting
ideas written up for it.  Unless of course the opinion is think that
Agora had nothing to offer or what it had to offer is of no value in
the new wiki.

The internet archive has at least some of its content for the purposes
of assessing it:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050205011246/agora.cubik.org/wiki/view/Main/WebHome

Cheers,
Richard.