• People don’t know how to use it.
• People don’t like the concept of losing control of a piece of text.
• People don’t like to just create a stub-article, they want to do the whole thing from cradle to grave. Don’t like to leave things unfinished.
• People are comfortable with what they’ve currently got.

This got me thinking about the original aims of the DruidWiki, which was clearly defined from the outset, about one and a half years ago, and is still in place on the front page:

The DruidWiki offers an opportunity to investigate the feasibility and practicality of providing an oral-like communication mechanism for collaborative projects within the Druid community, using Wiki technology and principles.

DruidWiki - Add your Awen

With that in mind, the DruidWiki has been a successful project, we have investigated the feasibility and practicality of Wiki technology and principles for the Druid community, and we have an answer: “It’s not feasible, because it’s not used, therefore, it’s not practical, because content is minimal.”

So, I’ll shortly be announcing a closing data for the DruidWiki project. Any material that has been submitted to the DruidWiki still remains licensed under the GFDL (GNU Free Documentation License), and will continue to be protected, as well as freely available upon request.

Please feel free to comment on this posting…

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We played some comedy moments, some tunes, and a new interactive game, “What’s that you weigh, Little Alison?” (sung along to, “Mrs. Robinson”.) A tip of the hat to the genius that is the JimJeroo show, which is the hour before mine (17.00 to 18.00 BST).

Next week, will be a funfilled installment of juice and hilarious schtuff… And then an hour later, I’ll be DJ’ing :)

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Hooray, another yibble’s Happy Hour! Mrs. yibble is incredibly late, Mr. yibble holds the fort as his evil twin, Roberto stalks the premises of the legal firm. Adverts and Fun a plenty!

Yay!

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The DruidWiki has been using MoinMoin software since the 14th of March, 2005, since then we’ve been working on porting aspects of a fork of MoinMoin, which was used by the DavisWiki. Recently the developers of the DavisWiki, have begun working on a fresh new code base, codenamed, Sycamore. Sycamore is a huge architecural break from its original MoinMoin beginnings. The biggest change being that relational data is no longer stored in flat files, but a MySQL database instead, permitting faster, more versatile data access. Without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace (or mod_python).

DruidWiki Migration - DruidWiki

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‘…and now on UKNova Radio, it’s time to board the ship of comedy, as we sail an ocean of laughter over to the mysterious Island of Jimbuctu…’

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In general, I’m against suicide. I think it’s a waste of a precious gift, something not ours to prematurely end, an aberration. If we’re here to bear witness to the world, to love and to learn, and impart love and learning. It’s a terrible waste to end that process wilfully.

When is it acceptable? Well, I suppose we’d have to look at circumstances where people do end their lives, and what drives them to it, and when people want to end their lives, but can’t. Depression, and illness are big factors (in my view), and age is another. Is it acceptable to end ones life because one is terminally ill, or incapacitated? If it’s going to end at some point soon, and one is experiencing a considerable decrease in quality of life, is it acceptable for them to seek a timely end?

I’m not sure if it can be judged by illness or whatever befalls us. For me, it would be the burden I place on my tribe, my family. I ask myself if it would be fair to put a carers life on hold, if there was no hope of recovery. If I was simply wasting away with age, and it was a long drawn out process, would it be fair for me to place that burden on others. Carers that perhaps would not understand my wish in those final days? Would I make good my escape, on one of those ‘up’ days, drag myself off to a place to die in peace, and beauty? Romantically, I’d like to think I would, and if peace didn’t come in time, would I have the balls to take a blade with me to fall on it?

In some ways, it’s resource managment. If I kept chickens, I paid with time and resources to keep them healthy, and fed, so that they could in turn be harvested for eggs. When a chicken is too old to lay anymore, do I still pile money and effort into this chicken? Or do I kill it, while its meat is still good, to feed my family for a Sunday, knowing that the chicken had been treated well, and had died before the debilitating effects of age had set in too far?

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