[MUD-Dev2] The Great Mud Survey

[John Arras]

On 1/9/07, Richard Tew <richard.m.tew at gmail.com> wrote:
 > 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.

I agree with this. As my response below shows, it was only because Agora 
is gone that I wanted to try this.

 > 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.

Ah, I didn't think to look at archive.org. I really had wanted to find 
it to start working with it instead of starting over. Since it might be 
possible to get that data, or maybe get it restarted, I would like to 
try that first.

 > 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