DokuWiki forum and sponsoring

After much discussion on the mailing list we decided to give the idea of an online forum for DokuWiki users a try. The forum uses the Unclassified NewsBoard software which is relatively unknown. I came accross it at opensourcecms.com where it got excellent ratings so far. I had some experience with PhpBB and PunBB which are both very fine and capable products¹⁾ but to be honest I don't really like their coding style. I haven't looked too deeply into UNB but I think it matches my idea of PHP somewhat more ;-) .

Anyway. UNB also comes with some really cool features I hadn't seen in other boards yet²⁾ eg. you can bookmark threads you're interested in and it has built in Jabber notification support - though I haven't configured that one yet. The only thing I don't like currently is the ACL editor which seem to be powerful but overly complicated to me - but I guess other may feel the same about the DokuWiki one ;-) .

But with every good there comes a bad: with the forum I now have another service running on my little server which begins to feel the load. It's a Celeron 2.4Ghz which isn't really a numbercruncher. It is currently running at a load between 1 and 5 and a CPU usage rarely beyond 30%. So sooner or later I will need to replace it with a more powerful machine. I just looked through a few online stores and I will need at least about 1,500 € for the machine I have in mind.

So here comes the sponsoring part of this post: I will probably buy a new machine in the next months (depending on my financial situation) but of course it would be much better to have a new server now – bought by someone else ;-) . So if you use DokuWiki in your company and think it is great and useful to you – why not donate a Server?. In exchange I can imagine some link to your company at the Wiki site (alá “Server sponsored by YourCompanyName”). If you're interested, just contact me and we can work something out.

Another idea to raise some money would be putting Google adsense ads on the Wiki page. I haven't really thought this through but I guess with the approx. 330,000 PIs per month it could bring some clicks. I'd like to get some feedback by you, the users: Would you mind to see google text ads on wiki.splitbrain.org?

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¹⁾ I usually hate this word for open source software but it just fits so nicely into the sentence

²⁾ probably because I hadn't looked good enough

Posted on Monday, May the 22nd 2006 (4 years ago).

No objection here, adsense ads are so ubiquitous that they don't distract too much imho. You could incorporate them in the new forum too. With that many page impressions you should get a steady income for every 1000 ads shown (apart from any actually clicked).

2006-05-24 00:34:29

Ben

First, I would love to have an Jabber notification at the user forum! :D On on hande it could spare some reloads of the site :) on the other hand I'm probably the only one there who's using Jabber. :( Maybe CCC is willing to help here with their Jabber server (jabber.ccc.de) ...
No offence, but I dislike having (Google) ads here or there. I will try to donate some bucks via PayPal, but I can's spend you an entire server, sorry. Why don't you "advertise" more the possibillity for PayPal donation instead?

2006-05-26 11:12:07

BlackFog

I want to support the wiki Forum within my realms of possibility. I would pay the monthly dues of a virtual server (look at https://www.server4you.de/de/v … index.html Basic package 10€/month) if this helps.

I also dislike having google.

2006-05-26 20:14:23

A.Friend

Thanks for your feedback and offers. I posted a reply at http://forum.dokuwiki.org/post/100

2006-05-29 19:33:20

Andi

You should go for google ads... if 1 % of 333.000 pageviews actually clicks than you would surely get a cool 500 bucks or more per month.

(of course, it depends on lot of factors, but I have a *lot* less pageviews and allready make about $100 per month...)
I don't have a lot of objections agains google ads since they are always relevant to the page contents and can be integrated into the site pretty well...

2006-05-30 02:32:18

Yogarine

I have downloaded and installed dokuwiki and so far it works great but I am having trouble accessing the admin panel. I have changed acl.auth.php and users.auth.php as suggested and gave them full permissions. I just don't know the path to the admin panel I guess.
Thanks,
Paul

2006-08-10 17:11:18

Paul

I wasn't very much convinced with the profitability of adsense. The way it read to me that I would need tremedous odds to make more than a handful of bucks that barely even match the fees involved in the actual "paying up" to me the supposed hoster of adsense blocks. It sounded more like in a blue moon, like if i run a portal as busy as yahoo!'s or amazon's, I'd make a cool coupla hundred bucks, anything less would be just a very slow trickle of cents. Especially for a kind of super specialized site.

2007-01-18 21:03:02

noob