Patrick

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Hey all, Just as a reminder, in this community, we can have the conversation of, "I observed a test where men and women were asked to perform in different ways, what do we think about that?" But what is not appropriate for this community is general observations on feminism, "political correctness" and women's rights. In other words, let's keep it strictly to the martial arts, and what is directly relevant to the martial arts conversation happening here. Please adhere to that from this reply forward. Thank you. Patrick

Thanks for the kind mention, Bulltahr. Interesting question, Liam! As Liam probably knows, but I thought I'd mention for others, the software that powers Wikipedia is free and open source, meaning you can use what they use pretty easily. You can find it here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki To keep it even simpler (in some ways), you could always collaborate over Google Docs. I think it's a good thing that you are talking about, at a high level, because I think it's helpful to have this information hosted somewhere where you have control over it. Things can happen to Facebook Groups and Pages. Not that it would, but it's always sort of risky putting all your eggs in one basket. I think it just really depends on what is easiest to use for your and your members. By default, I'd probably push people toward (a private) WordPress installation. You can do similar things with it, and I feel like more people are familiar with it. Hope this is helpful. If you've self-hosted a Wiki, definitely post! Thanks, Patrick

Sorry to hear that but congrats on the year mark! Thanks for the update. Patrick

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Interesting idea. Thanks for sharing, Himokiri Karate. Patrick

Avatar issue fixed. Thanks.

First thing: some avatars are not displaying. Like mine. I'm looking into that. Thanks!

Hey all, You may have seen some errors on the site over the last 24 hours, tied to security. Firstly, everything is fine, there was no real security issue. It was triggered by our web host moving us to a new server without talking to me first. At any rate, we're now on a newer server, and if you see anything that is amiss - anything broken, any error messages, anything at all out of place, please report it here or via private message to me. There may be no errors at all, but to be safe, I'd like your help to make sure. Thank you for your time and patience. Patrick

Nice! Congrats MatsuShinshii. Patrick

This is great. Thanks for sharing, Bob. I'm glad you had a chance to meet! Patrick

Happy birthday to Danielle (DWx)! Hope you have had a great day. Thank you for everything that you do around here, and the incredible contributions that you have made throughout the years. Patrick

Hey all, Let's reset. This thread is about members sharing people they personally view as inspirational from history. Some of the folks you list may not be of any inspiration to me at all, people I find inspirational may not inspire you. This thread is not for us to try to pick them apart to decide who is more inspired and who is most inspirational. Let's move forward with that understanding, starting from this reply. Thank you. Patrick

Hey G95champ. Welcome back. Patrick

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Welcome Fat Cobra. Glad to have you. Patrick

Hello and welcome, Fat Cobra. I am going to go ahead and close this thread and direct people over to your other introduction thread. I appreciate it. https://www.karateforums.com/new-to-the-group-vt51742.html Thanks, Patrick

Welcome aboard, DauntlessDruid. Glad to have you. Patrick

I appreciate this. Thanks Himokiri Karate! Patrick

Belated welcome, Keith. Glad to have you! Patrick

Congrats Shizentai. Patrick

Good luck, KeithBerg. Thanks for sharing. Patrick

Happy birthday to JR 137! Thank you for all of the great contributions that you have made here. Patrick

This is so nice to hear, shortyafter. Thank you for saying so and for trusting the community! Patrick

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