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So there was a little spat on Twitter about UrbanVancouver (owned and operated by Bryght) which is an blog aggregator, normally these work out great. This blog is included in a few like the Open Wiki Blog Planet, the difference is that we opted in to this aggregator. Local radio host Buzz Bishops blog entire archive was taken and posted on Urban Vancouver without his permission.

You can see most of it here http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Urban+Vancouver

Edit: Looks like there are a few more people finding their stuff on UV that never approved it.

Another Edit: Buzz has posted about it here.

Why are we posting this?  We want UV to change its method of Opt-Out to totally Opt-In.

There are a bunch of Wiki meetups going on and some that even start a trend like WikiWednesday.  They are all great places to learn about wikis, find jobs, talk deals and generally cavort.

List of people having Wiki Meetups:

• Portland - Wiki Wednesday (Tomorrow) Hosted by AboutUs, which will be talking about the UniversalEditButton & Wikimania.
• London - Wiki Wednesday. Although they won’t be having it until the 13th.
• Toronto - Changed it to Wiki Tuesday; but, they seem to be having a few things going on.
• Chicago - Doing a middle of the month Wednesday one, the 13th.

A full list of all the Wiki Meetups are at www.wikimeetups.com if you know of one that goes on that is not listed there, please add it to the list!

Anybody in Vancouver, Canada looking to do a Wiki meetup?

Edit: Added chicago and fixed the London url.

For a long time at ScribbleWiki we had no revision control system in place, directly uploading all the edits to the server, and having a many different folders and a lot of copies of files.  And having one could of stopped many problems.  We deal a lot with MediaWiki’s extensions build by the community and even though we test them on a development server, things just seem to come up when we release it to our production servers and it would be awesome if we could of just pressed the revert button and have everything work.

Of course we like hosted products, why? We don’t deal with revision software we want people running it that know what they are doing and have it all working.  We had a few options like the most popular pick lately seems to be CVSDude and then some others are Unfuddle and Wush.  Although Beanstalk is what we went with, it has some great features like FTP/SFTP deployment so that with one button (or on each commit) it will deploy all of your commits.

Just a note that you should try and use SVN as it seems that is the new standard.  CVS use to be but the developers from CVS created SVN and moved a lot of people over.

For some more information on code management and SVN:

• Subversion for Designers
• A Visual Guide to Version Control
• Version Control with Subversion (free online book)