The KneeQuickie still exists [Discussion]

[Curlyjimsam]

It's been several years since I've had the time to put anything at all on these sorts of wikis, and even when I did use them I never posted anything very extensive. Personally I would prefer to host stuff on my own webspace (not that I'm doing any of that at the moment, either ...).

But this is just me and clearly there are people for whom posting things about their conlangs on shared wikis is an attractive concept. One advantage, I suppose, is that it maybe gets you a bit more exposure, and it's less hassle than setting up your own website/wiki. And a shared wiki is very useful for other things, like the Correspondence Library, or things they have on FrathWiki like collections of Babel texts.

[Nortaneous]

now that anthologica is dead i guess i'll migrate back to KQ

[Travis B.]

I have been putting my conlang stuff on here because Anthologica is down, but putting stuff on the ZBB is rather non-optimal, so I might start using the KneeQuickie.

[Neek]

Well, I just renewed the domain, so the KQ's still not going anywhere. What happened to Anthologi.ca?

[Neek]

It's been several years since I've had the time to put anything at all on these sorts of wikis, and even when I did use them I never posted anything very extensive. Personally I would prefer to host stuff on my own webspace (not that I'm doing any of that at the moment, either ...).

But this is just me and clearly there are people for whom posting things about their conlangs on shared wikis is an attractive concept. One advantage, I suppose, is that it maybe gets you a bit more exposure, and it's less hassle than setting up your own website/wiki. And a shared wiki is very useful for other things, like the Correspondence Library, or things they have on FrathWiki like collections of Babel texts.

I don't blame or fault people for using their own websites for exposure, control and security. That's respectable. I want the KQ to be less about someone's conlang and more about conlanging in general -- lists of texts, translations, and resources. I don't have the time or energy to do it all myself, however. But my marketing ability is shit.

Also, follow the KQ on Facebook. Not that I post there often or whatever, but I would if there was more reason to.

[hwhatting]

Well, I just renewed the domain, so the KQ's still not going anywhere. What happened to Anthologi.ca?

This is the latest status I know. It's still down, I'm checking regularly because I'd started to put up the Tautisca dictionary there.

[Travis B.]

There was hard drive corruption, and it is not known yet whether the data uploaded to it can be recovered. I assume that everything on it is lost, considering that Rhetorica has commented that she does not have the knowledge necessary to recover corrupted ext4 filesystems. Since then I have created my own website, hosted on neocities.org, which I like because I have complete control over the content and that it is geared towards people who already know HTML and CSS (unlike, say, Google Sites).

[hwhatting]

I assume that everything on it is lost, considering that Rhetorica has commented that she does not have the knowledge necessary to recover corrupted ext4 filesystems.

That's too bad. I liked the available templates to put up conlang information; I'm not kowledgable enough to create them and too busy otherwise / lazy to learn how to do so. Well, that means I'll just keep keeping my data in files on my computer...

[jal]

Well, that means I'll just keep keeping my data in files on my computer...

Please, also back them up on a cloud drive and a USB drive or the like... I've experienced a drive crash more than once, and I was very glad that I back-up stuff most of the time...


JAL

[hwhatting]

Well, that means I'll just keep keeping my data in files on my computer...

Please, also back them up on a cloud drive and a USB drive or the like... I've experienced a drive crash more than once, and I was very glad that I back-up stuff most of the time...

Yes, I should do that more often... procrastination is my vice...

[Travis B.]

I like that neocities.org allows me to download my entire site as a zip file in one action; I should actually do this, just in case neocities.org loses my data for whatever reason.