Dear Lennart, Clay, Dmytro, Dennis, Rett, Piya, Alex, Gunnar and
friends,

this mail is also a reply to Clay's message
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/6148).

It is wonderful to see Lennart and Clay contributing to the online
Pali learning experience on wiktionary.org and everything2.com. It is
exciting to learn and see that happening. It'd be wonderful if more
can join them to provide relevant information on those sites.

I have long wanted to turn Tipitaka.net into a community site as far
back as 2003. However, I would like to keep this mailing list
running. I believe this would be useful for Nina and many other
members. So, this is quite a daunting task because my initial idea
was to stop the mailing list completely. After two more years of
continuation, I find that the mailing list is still very helpful.
Still, I believe we can extend our online activities to the web (i.e.
browser-based). So, I follow two basic guidelines on this issue. (1)
web activities will be an extension of mailing-list activities; (2)
minimise duplication of efforts elsewhere (be it online/print or
buddhist/others).

I like the idea of a wiki, as in a wikipedia or wiktionary, in which
people contribute information on a collaborative basis to a
collective system of thoughts. It is brilliant. For a start, I would
like to find out who is in favour of using an available Open Source
wiki (and which one), and who is in favour of developing a simpler
one for Tipitaka Network. I hope to hear from you soon.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Lennart Lopin wrote:

I definitly think that the gathered expertise of this group could
contribute a very important part to the "heritage of mankind"-project
which wikipedia is steadily growing into...