Re: Mirroring PostgreSQL related content

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:49:38PM +0100, Guido Barosio wrote:
> Elein,
>
> I agree and I strongly believe it was and remains the idea. (to let
> the contributor inform and authorize about a certain document, keeping
> the hits/credits on the contributor side).
>
> What about creating a form to save the authors, urls and a short
> description, letting the comunity create their own entries, saving
> information in a /the database and regularly cronchecking these
> objects to avoid 404's ? This should be managed and authorized by
> someone tho. Wondering, moderators?

This can be done on planetpostgres which is up and running well.

--elein

>
> I can do that, php / perl based. (form php, cron job running a perl
> script, using lwp or alike).
>
> g.-
>
>
>
> ----
>
> Talking bout link checkers, I used the w3 web based one, which created
> a good report about the situation. Anyway, what I did was to confirm
> that these are broken links, and not syntax mistakes, wrong urls. That
> report is attached as a .zip
>
> g.-
>
>
> On 4/21/06, elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com> wrote:
> > Speaking for my site, www.varlena.com/GeneralBits, only,
> > I prefer to have a prominent (not deep) link on postgresql.
> > I do not want my content mirrored by I want the link to be useful.
> >
> > Although I have been slacking in writing new articles, there is a
> > 3 year repository of articles on my site. The point of these
> > articles was to help postgres users--it is my return to the community.
> > As it stands, most people get to my articles through google and
> > not the postgresql.org web site.
> >
> > This is just one point of view from a heavy content provider of
> > postgresql articles. People who have a few articles may well
> > want them to be hosted on postgresql.org.
> >
> > In the past we have been lax about organizing and maintaining
> > individual informational articles. Techdocs (ack!) It may be possible
> > to push this over onto planetpostgres as long as we give ample
> > visibility to its link. And people know where to post articles or
> > links to them.
> >
> > --elein
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:55:10PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > > After seeing reports of some very interesting sounding articles that
> > > were hosted elsewhere are now 404...
> > >
> > > Do we make any efforts to mirror the content of PostgreSQL related
> > > stories or articles? Presumably this would require contacting authors
> > > for permission, but perhaps we can find some enthusiastic newbies to do
> > > that...
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