From eks2@york.ac.uk Thu May 29 02:48:05 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: eks2@york.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 81343 invoked from network); 29 May 2003 09:48:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 May 2003 09:48:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n15.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.70) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 May 2003 09:48:05 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.188] by n15.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 29 May 2003 09:48:04 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 09:48:04 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Lojban Links Message-ID: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1735 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "Evgueni Sklyanin" X-Originating-IP: 144.32.128.75 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=71790832 X-Yahoo-Profile: sklyanin X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 19982 coi rodo I would like to hear your opinions on the LojbanLinks web page http://members.lycos.co.uk/lojbanlinks/ which I maintain since 1999. The situation in the community is very different now from 1999 when the web pages devoted to lojban and independent from LLG just started to proliferate. At that time I used to collect the references from AltaVista search engine and to produce the web page manually. Nowadays the main source of new references is this very maillist and the volume of the traffic is, I am afraid, beyond my capabilities to cope with. Anyway, I would like to retire from this project and to concentrate on building the Russian lojbanists community. I have the following questions to the community: 1. Do you think that LojbanLinks site or something like it could be still useful or it is completely superseded by lojban.org and Wiki? 2. Will someone volunteer to take over this job (if you think it is still useful)? 3. Apparently, the process needs a more efficient computerized technology. As for collecting the raw material from the maillist, I think it could be done at the source by some script scanning all the messages and extracting all the http-links (when the list resided on onelist.com there was such a service provided!). I understand of course that this means yet another burden for our Webmaster. The most time-consuming part (for me, at least) was categorizing the references and putting them on their proper places on the web page. I used to do it manually, but probably one can suggest a more efficient technology. Or, maybe we can make a Wiki page for a collection of all kind of references and to leave it to collective effort. What do you think? mi'e .evgenis.