Hi Jeff:
Welcome to the porch. As you're a newbie here, I'm assuming you're not
aware of an existing wiki which was started some years ago. There has
not been much activity on it, perhaps because list members are already
busy with more projects than they can juggle, and possibly because they
weren't wanting to learn the interface. There has been much discussion
in the past over the merits of alternate forms which the porch might
take, but the consensus seems to be that most porch-dwellers ( myself
included ) are happy with the plain-text mail-list format. In any case,
the existing wiki can be found at
http://galootopedia.com/old-tools_wiki/index.php?title=Special:AllPages
As of May 2015, it was residing on Brian Rytel's website. I'm not sure
that that is still the case. No doubt Chris Swingley can provide
information in that respect.
On 2018-07-29 4:19 PM, Jeffrey Mace wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm new to the list. I do some tool restoration and am a novice but avid
> woodworker. I was searching online about Wiktor Kuc's website closing down
> and came across this mailing list.
>
> I, too, was disappointed to see the site going down. And I set out to solve
> for the problem of a website popping up, amassing a valuable set of
> information about historic tools, and then shutting down.
>
> I've done a bit of website work in the past. Today, I took a few hours and
> launched http://wiki-tool.org. If anyone has ever used Wikipedia, I used
> the same open-source software to launch WikiTool <http://wiki-tool.org/>.
> My hope is that over time, people fill this site with valuable tool
> information for all.
>
> For now, I'm funding this site. It's not burdensome, I think it ran me $50
> to get going this morning. In the coming months, I hope to do two things to
> solve the 'ownership' issue associated with domains, hosting, and funding.
> First, I'll either set up a non-profit or find a non-profit to steward the
> organizational matters and prevent any individual from 'owning' the
> content. Second, I'll put in some donation plugin that allows the site to
> take donations and self fund.
>
> I'm interested in thoughts, comments, criticism, etc. that may help make
> the site better. And of course, spread the word about WikiTool
> <http://wiki-tool.org/>. If you have any questions, let me know.
>
> Jeff Mace
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