(03-27-2021, 09:15 AM)robkelk Wrote:(03-27-2021, 08:18 AM)Black Aeronaut Wrote: Bit of a tangent, but I think it would still be a good idea if we used something like Google Docs for the live stories. It'll make it a lot easier to avoid that awkward situation where two people are working on the same story on the Wiki and don't even know it, and then try to submit changes that happen to contradict one another.
With Docs, you can see the changes being made in real-time, so you wouldn't wind up with that situation. Even better? You can leave in-line notes and commentary for others. Stuff like, "Are you sure you meant this and not that?" or "Don't you think this is a bit out of character for this person?"
I have a fundamental dislike of sharing information with Google for any reason. I know too much about how they use it.
And we started the wiki because we wanted someplace where we could all edit the live stories, and PiratePad was glitching on us. So far, we haven't had an edit collision.
Well, the main reason we haven't had a "collision" yet is because you've been the one doing the most work on the wiki. That's probably going to change as I slowly get more used to working on it. I can understand your reticence about using Google, but it doesn't necessarily have to be Google we use.
I believe it was discussed before, but Etherpad is still out there in the form of Etherpad Lite. After Google consumed Etherpad, it didn't get quite the following they were hoping for, so they just made the code open source and dumped it. Fortunately, someone has taken up the challenge and created a "lite" rewrite that is based in node.js. It does require a server to work, but there are people that provide those for free out of the goodness of their hearts. Worse comes to worse, I can probably put together a server out of a Raspberry Pi or something and connect it to my router, but that'll take a bit of doing on my part.