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#+title: About metanohi
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#+summary: A short description of what metanohi is
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#+license: bysa
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#&toc
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* About metanohi
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This is metanohi.
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Currently, metanohi resides on *metanohi.name*. Originally, it was on
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metanohi.org. To contact [[./niels][Niels]] (the creator), send him an electronic mail at
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[[mailto:ngws@metanohi.name][ngws@metanohi.name]].
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metanohi is mostly XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2 valid. Currently, metanohi.name pages
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are served as text/html and not as application/xml+xhtml (as they should). This
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might get fixed (it is extremely easy to fix, but if fixed, some things
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depending on external JavaScript which depends on non-XHTML, like the FSF
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widget on the propaganda page, might cease to work).
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[[./links][Propaganda]].
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** Copying
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In general, text, images, and other media on metanohi is licensed under the
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[[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/][Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0]] license, a *copyleft*
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license. There may be cases with other licenses. The status of a page can be
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seen in the bottom in a metadata box. If no license is specified in the box,
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it's either because someone forgot to apply one to the page, or it's because
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the page has almost no content (like the "Page not found" page) and does not
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really require a license.
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#+caption: Free cultural works
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#&img;url=/img/licenses/freecontent.png, float=right
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Most of metanohi's content can be defined as free cultural works, as defined by
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[[http://freedomdefined.org/][freedomdefined.org]].
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In all cases, you are free to redistribute content from metanohi, but please
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don't set up a mirror for no reason (who would do that, anyway?).
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External content is sometimes a different matter. [[./media-licenses][A list of licenses for media]]
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is used for attributing in cases where it is impractical to attribute in-page.
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If you take something from metanohi that is not under a public-domain-like
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license, you are required to attribute Niels G. W. Serup and metanohi. When
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doing that, write something like "Niels G. W. Serup, [[http://metanohi.name/][metanohi.name]]".
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A few pages, like [[/projects/][this one]], have a lot of Python code for in-page evaluation
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and execution. This might not be the most secure thing to allow, but since only
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one person can change it, it is deemed safe enough. Any such nontrivial code is
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licensed under the same license as [[/projects/mege/][mege]], i.e. AGPLv3+, unless otherwise
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noted. This might seem like overkill in some situations, but with only one
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license in use, simplicity is achieved.
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Note that the CC BY-SA license is used by default, which is why even pages with
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no more than two lines bear that license.
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** Source
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If you wish to use [[/projects/mege/][mege]] for a new website (I wouldn't), you may wish to use
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metanohi as a template.
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Get the main site:
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: $ git clone git://metanohi.name/metanohi-metanohi
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Get the subsites:
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: $ git clone git://metanohi.name/metanohi-meta
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** SSL/TLS
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You can access metanohi from HTTPS. metanohi uses a [[http://cacert.org][CAcert]]. To make your browser
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automatically accept CAcerts, follow the instructions on [[https://wiki.cacert.org/FAQ/BrowserClients][CAcerts wiki]]; it
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doesn't take long.
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** History
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#+caption: This alien wonders why 'metanohi' was picked.
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#&img;url=/img/aliens/makrh.png, float=right,noclear, width=100
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metanohi was created in 2009 as a spinoff of earlier projects with equally
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undefined purposes.
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*Note:* While most of the content from the old metanohi has been ported to this
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improved version, the modification times have not been saved. This is why old
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projects from 2009 and 2010 appear to have been created in July or August, 2011.
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*** "Why the name?"
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There are several reasons: + It's unique
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+ It's simple + It has the meta prefix, which automatically transforms anything into
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something cool
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+ 'metanohi', or at least part of 'metanohi', has meanings in some languages
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*** Screenshots of the old metanohi
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Click to go to fullsize image.
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#&img;url=img/scr1.png,width=300,float=left,noclear,medlink,caption=Start page
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#&img;url=img/scr2.png,width=300,float=left,noclear,medlink,caption=Projects page
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#&img;url=img/scr3.png,width=300,float=left,noclear,medlink,caption=CSS fun
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#&clear
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** Language
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metanohi is generally only available in English. A few pages are in Danish.
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** Font size
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The font sizes on metanohi are based on your default font size. Read more [[/writings/css-failings][here]].
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To change your default font size in the [[http://conkeror.org/][Conkeror]] web browser, put this in your
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.conkerorrc:
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#+BEGIN_SRC javascript
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session_pref("font.size.variable.x-western", YOUR_FONT_SIZE_HERE);
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#+END_SRC
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The default is probably 16 which works fine in metanohi (like other sizes
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should do).
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It's probably just as easy to change in other web browsers.
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** Comments
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Pages on metanohi currently do not support comments, but I can be contacted at
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my email address. A comment system might appear if I find it necessary.
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