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About metanohi
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About metanohi
This is metanohi.
Currently, metanohi resides on metanohi.name. Originally, it was on metanohi.org which now&del no more redirects requests to .name. To contact Niels (the creator), send him an electronic mail at ns@metanohi.name {(ns@metanohi.org no more redirects emails to that address)}&small.
metanohi is mostly XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2 valid. Currently, metanohi.name pages are served as text/html and not as application/xml+xhtml (as they should). This might get fixed (it is extremely easy to fix, but if fixed, some things depending on external JavaScript which depends on non-XHTML, like the FSF widget on the front page, might cease to work).
Copying
In general, text, images, and other media on metanohi is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license, a copyleft license. There may be cases with other licenses. The status of a page can be seen in the bottom in a metadata box. If no license is specified in the box, it's either because someone forgot to apply one to the page, or it's because the page has almost no content (like the "Page not found" page) and does not really require a license.
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Most of metanohi's content can be defined as free cultural works, as defined by freedomdefined.org.
In all cases, you are free to redistribute content from metanohi, but please don't set up a mirror for no reason (who would do that, anyway?).
External content is sometimes a different matter. A list of licenses for media is used for attributing in cases where it is impractical to attribute in-page.
If you take something from metanohi that is not under a public-domain-like license, you are required to attribute Niels G. W. Serup and metanohi. When doing that, write something like "Niels G. W. Serup, metanohi.name".
A few pages, like this one, have a lot of Python code for in-page evaluation and execution. This might not be the most secure thing to allow, but since only one person can change it, it is deemed safe enough. Any such nontrivial code is licensed under the same license as mege, i.e. AGPLv3+, unless otherwise noted. This might seem like overkill in some situations, but with only one license in use, simplicity is achieved.
Note that the CC BY-SA license is used by default, which is why even pages with no more than two lines bear that license.
Source
If you wish to use mege for a website, you may wish to use metanohi as a template.
Get the main site:
$ git clone git://metanohi.name/metanohi-metanohi
Get the subsites:
$ git clone git://metanohi.name/metanohi-meta
History
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metanohi was created in 2009 as a spinoff of earlier projects with equally undefined purposes.
Note: While most of the content from the old metanohi has been ported to this improved version, the modification times have not been saved. This is why old projects from 2009 and 2010 appear to have been created in July or August, 2011.
"Why the name?"
There are several reasons:
- It's unique
- It's simple
- It has the meta prefix, which automatically transforms anything into something cool
- 'metanohi', or at least part of 'metanohi', has meanings in some languages
Screenshots of the old metanohi
Click to go to fullsize image.
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Language
metanohi is only available in English.
Font size
The font sizes on metanohi are based on your default font size. Read more here.
To change your default font size in the Conkeror web browser, put this in your .conkerorrc:
session_pref("font.size.variable.x-western", YOUR_FONT_SIZE_HERE);The default is probably 16 which works fine in metanohi (like other sizes should do).
It's probably just as easy to change in other web browsers.