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  1. Re:Celebration! by mandalayx · · Score: 4, Informative · on Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles

    actually Wikipedia is busier than slashdot, according to Alexa.

    And for good reason. (disclaimer: I am a Wikipedia contributor.) Also recommend Wikitravel.

  2. Re:Pretty groovy... by lewko · · Score: 5, Interesting · on LA to Oregon at Mach 9
    In the Northern Territory (central Australia towards the top of the country) most areas outside major towns have no speed limit posted on the highways simply because the distances are so large, and there are so few other vehicles.

    There's something really cool about driving at 160kmh, seeing a highway patrol car and freaking out that you are busted until he overtakes you at 180kmh and waves...

    The bad news is that if you are a long way from somewhere when your car overheats and breaks down, you will probably die.

  3. Re:Share alike compatibility by mlinksva · · Score: 1 · on Creative Commons Includes GPL And LGPL Metadata
    As a travel site word66 might be more interested in compatibility with Wikitravel. Fortunately both of you are using CC BY-SA.

    There has been some demand for CC BY-SA/GFDL compatibility on the cc-licenses mailing list (see last month's archives in particular). We'll see if anything can be done...

  4. Shameless Plug by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Wikipedia Reaches 200,000 Articles

    There's also a fairly new wikipaedia-like project to build a travelguide at Wikitravel.org. It's just got 1000 articles (and many of them far from complete), however, this is one cool project IMO.

  5. MediaWiki and other wikis by Eloquence · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Wikipedia Reaches 200,000 Articles
    Also take a look at MediaWiki, the open source wiki that runs Wikipedia. It was especially developed for that purpose, but is now also used by our spin-off projects Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Wikibooks (the latter is an attempt to create free textbooks for use in education, and has already made some good progress). All of these projects are organized under the Wikimedia non-profit foundations. More projects such as a wiki news site are on the horizon.

    MediaWiki is also used by non-Wikimedia projects. Among the more interesting ones is Disinfopedia, an encyclopedia of propaganda, and Wikitravel, a travel guide. Star Trek fans will want to take a look at Memory Alpha.

    Because of Wikipedia's constant server problems, MediaWiki has been refined to be very scalable. It caches almost everything and uses Livejournal's memcached to keep important data in memory. It also has support for Squid proxy servers. Aside from that MediaWiki comes with a huge set of features, many of which are found in few other wikis:

    • section editing - edit not a whole page, but just a small subsection of it (great for large pages)
    • automatic image rescaling
    • LaTeX support for mathematic formulas
    • message transclusion - create messages that can be used
    • namespaces to separate article content, user pages, image descriptions and discussions; message notification for user-to-user messages
    • plenty of query functions to examine the relationships between articles (articles which have many links to them but don't exist, articles which have no links to them, very long/short articles etc.)
    More cool features are in the works, including a larger set of backends for rendering music, chemical formulas, chessboards etc. MediaWiki is always looking for new developers. Give it a try and join the mailing list to help out. There are other great wikis out there -- MoinMoin, Tiki, Zwiki, OddMuse etc. -- but I prefer MediaWiki because I find it the easiest to use, and most other wikis use the ugly CamelCaseSyntaxWhichMakesPagesHardToRead.