From brian at wikkawiki.org Mon Sep 14 03:32:00 2020 From: brian at wikkawiki.org (Brian) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 22:32:00 -0500 Subject: [wikka-community] So long, and thanks for all the fish Message-ID: It is with a heavy heart that I am announcing the end-of-life for WikkaWiki. I have been an active developer with the project for 15 years, and am currently the last of the original devs. A lot has changed in the wiki landscape (and my own life) over the years, and TBH I have not kept up with the changes in the PHP language. In addition, it really doesn't make sense for me to continue offering new functionality for an ever-dwindling audience of WikkaWiki users. To that end, I will maintain ownership of the github repo and related issues database, but it's doubtful there will be any more development. Of course, in the spirit of F/OSS, anyone is free to fork the project and go off in their own direction. Currently, Dario (one of our early visionaries) maintains ownership of the wikkawiki.org domain; I host the various websites. I will be shutting down the demo website, and will keep the www and docs websites alive for at least a few more months. During that time, I will capture the content of both sites and post the SQL tarballs (purged of user data) here for posterity. I've truly enjoyed this journey, and I don't consider this the end, but the beginning of some new journey I've not yet realized. To those of you who have stuck with us, thank you so much! It makes the time spent on this project worth every second of effort put into it. --Brian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From janewilliams20 at yahoo.co.uk Mon Sep 14 05:36:46 2020 From: janewilliams20 at yahoo.co.uk (Jane Williams) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 05:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [wikka-community] So long, and thanks for all the fish In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <944218032.9106320.1600061806871@mail.yahoo.com> Drat. You'll be missed. I'm still actively using my Wiki, and was about to migrate another one into it.Anyone got any suggestions on where to migrate to, and how, if this is going? Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 4:32, Brian wrote: It is with a heavy heart that I am announcing the end-of-life for WikkaWiki. I have been an active developer with the project for 15 years, and am currently the last of the original devs. A lot has changed in the wiki landscape (and my own life) over the years, and TBH I have not kept up with the changes in the PHP language. In addition, it really doesn't make sense for me to continue offering new functionality for an ever-dwindling audience of WikkaWiki users. To that end, I will maintain ownership of the github repo and related issues database, but it's doubtful there will be any more development. Of course, in the spirit of F/OSS, anyone is free to fork the project and go off in their own direction. Currently, Dario (one of our early visionaries) maintains ownership of the wikkawiki.org domain; I host the various websites. I will be shutting down the demo website, and will keep the www and docs websites alive for at least a few more months. During that time, I will capture the content of both sites and post the SQL tarballs (purged of user data) here for posterity. I've truly enjoyed this journey, and I don't consider this the end, but the beginning of some new journey I've not yet realized. To those of you who have stuck with us, thank you so much! It makes the time spent on this project worth every second of effort put into it.   --Brian _______________________________________________ WikkaWiki Community mailing list community at lists.wikkawiki.org http://lists.wikkawiki.org/mailman/listinfo/community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From masin_aldujaili at yahoo.de Mon Sep 14 07:46:18 2020 From: masin_aldujaili at yahoo.de (Masin Al-Dujaili) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:46:18 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [wikka-community] So long, and thanks for all the fish In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1940063831.6908511.1600069578279@mail.yahoo.com> Thanks a lot, Brian, for your dedication in the last years. I'm really sorry I couldn't find the time to help. But I was always astonished how you still kept the boat running. I expected the end much, much earlier, and yet, you brought WikkaWiki into the year 2020. I have to admit that my enthusiasm dwindled years ago. I still haven't updated a few WikkaWiki 1.1.6 and 1.2 instances due to not having the time to adapt all my modifications. I fear the time of Wikis –or at least the time of Wiki plurality– is over. Mediawiki is the first choice most the time just because it's famous, not because it's the one fitting the purpose. For simple websites Wordpress is the go-to-solution nowadays. I guess there's just no niche anymore forsomething like WikkaWiki. I'm a little bit sad because of this development. But I'll always remember fondly WikkaWiki and its ease to hack as well as its small but friendly and welcoming community. I had some ideas to increase its usability and userfriendliness but I never had the time to work on it. Thanks again, and all the best! Masin From nonce at lavabit.com Mon Sep 14 20:09:47 2020 From: nonce at lavabit.com (nonce) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 22:09:47 +0200 Subject: [wikka-community] So long, and thanks for all the fish In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thank you, Brian, and also all previous contributors, for all your work and time on creating and improving this great wiki! I’m using WikkaWiki as personal/private wiki since 2008. I’m visiting it multiple times every day since then, and it has grown to more than 3100 pages (with more than 63000 edits). It’s my outsourced brain. WikkaWiki does a fantastic job, it just works, and I think the editor with its feel & features is still the best out there (especially the support of indenting with the Tab key, and automatically continuing lists when pressing Enter). I will continue using it (as my instance is not publicly accessible, so there should be no security concerns), but it’s nevertheless sad to hear that this will probably be the end of the WikkaWiki project.