Re: Wiki

Hi Randy

> I can't do any of this strictly by myself--deleting the TWiki graphic and tool
> bar, etc. require changes to the template (one of the templates--TWiki
> overloads the word template to apply to about three different things, iirc.)

I'll make sure you can. I'll send you an offlist email about this.

> > Perhaps the organisation of the wiki would seem less confusing if it were
> > moved to a subdomain like faq.abisource.com or something?
>
> I like that for another reason--if we let Google crawl that domain, then we
> can put a custom Google search widget on the search page. Does anybody know
> what's up with Google--are we doing something to prevent them from crawling
> abisource.org?

Only partially: http://www.abisource.com/robots.txt

> I don't know why, when I go to http://services.google.com/cobrand/free_trial
> and choose "Sign me up for customizable Google Free Search!" then enter
> abisource.org or www.abisource.org I get an error message that says,
> essentially, Google doesn't index the site. Yet, when I do other Google
> searches, I get hits on www.abisource.com. ??
>
> One point I wanted to make here is that, for this purpose also, a separate
> (sub) domain for the wiki would be helpful. But, I'll get into that more in
> the separate email. (I presume we'd have to register (pay) for such a
> sub-domain?)

No we don't need to pay for that. We own it all :-) The only think we
need is the approval of the University of Twente, but they never refused
us anything (twente rocks!)

Bye!
  Marc
Received on Thu Mar 17 21:08:41 2005