Re: Deathlist first book only

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:48:49 -0400, Sue H <dahoov2@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:36:51 +1000, Welsh Dog <welshdog@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:43:46 -0000, dicconf@xxxxxxxxx (Richard Eney)
wrote:

In article <1187404728.838190.5200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dragon Rider <fbrunza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Richard Eney escreveu:
Fish Eye no Miko <fenm@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 17, 12:56 pm, Sue H <daho...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Dragon Rider <fbru...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sue, I know you seem to be specially motivated these
days, doing a lot of research... but Usenet is hardly
the place to publish that kind of reference information.

ok I'll not start anymore threads. I'll be off a while.

Aw.. I at least wanted to hear your Snape evidence for PoA...
Please?

Me, too. I'd much rather have the information here, where I can
respond easily, than on a webpage or blog where comments can't
lead to interesting discussions the way they can here.

I really want to apologize to all of you if I sounded like was trying
to put Sue off it; it's quite the reverse actually!!

She's doing a *lot* of work, covering the books page per page in a
variety of subjects, and it would be a pity, IMHO, if it was *just*
posted here, discussed a little while, then got buried together with
McGonagall's true animagus form, Dumbledore not being really dead and
V being Snape's father.

It'd be far more interesting to have it available as reference in a
page, then being referenced here and discussed, as we have done
already with a lot of news.


Web pages come and go. So do blogs. Google and other places
are archives, though not everything gets kept.

Ideally, the results would be posted here _and_ on a webpage.
The webpage would be a current resource, and Google and the other
archives would store the version and followup comments posted here.

=Tamar

Tell ya what guys... I have lots of hosting space for us to store
stuff on... if anyone wanted to offer to maintain it I'd be glad to
donate a domain so we have one of our own!

Just give me a name and I'll set it up... and decide what sort of
software is wanted ok?

Personally I'd suggest a WIKI or similar... esp. since anyone of us
can edit one of those and add information as required.

Tell ya what... someone come up with a halfway decent domain name...
I'll register it... I'll install media wiki on it (that's what
Wikipedia started with!!) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

... and we can take it from there! If any of us has something we thing
should be stored for longer periods it can go there, after most
news-servers purge old messages regularly so we might lose loads of
stuff!!

If it all comes to nothing... so what.. be good for a laugh either way
:)

Welshdog

I've kept my lists and notations on a word document. As well as the
two polls I did (unfortunately the one poll was too convoluted so
though I made annotations, it's not much use). I do have the info on
age/sex etc If anyone needs me to repost something I don't mind. I
can agree stuff gets lost here (hence why I see a lot of people like
to go back and dig out old posts and repost them).

I heard Wiki is really inaccurate etc. Actually my husband took a
class recently and the instructor forbade them to use that as any
reference material.

Actually, most of its articles are very accurate and the
sophistication of some of its science and math articles astounds me.
Moreover, it has far more articles than any hardbound encyclopedia and
they are updated continuously. However, it should be never be cited
as a reference precisely because it is a moving target but should
instead be used as an introduction to and an overview of a given topic
and as a pointer to works which can be cited.

In any event, Welshdog is talking about using the underlying Wiki
software to create and maintain a specialized Harry Potter Wiki for
the news group, not Wikipedia itself (which does have a goodly number
of HP articles).


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