e-sword 9.9

e-Sword 9.9 was released earlier today.

At the bottom left hand side of the Resource Option screen is what I consider to be the best feature of e-Sword 9.9.  The return of the checkbox for single row tabs. 

Most people will probably find the 8 parallel Bible function more useful.

The search function has been completely redesigned.

I did run into a couple of minor glitches.  I suspect that these are related to how I installed e-Sword.   I'll blow away my .wine, and .wine-esword directories, reinstall e-Sword, and see if those glitches reappear.

Thinking about Ubuntu Christian Edition

Something that only dawned on me today, was that the recent (11
March 2011) earthquake in Japan put paid to a release of Ubuntu Christian Edition based upon Ubuntu 11.4. That earthquake probably also put paid to a release of Ubuntu Christian Edition based upon Ubuntu 11.10.

Fundamentally, what is Ubuntu Christian Edition:
* A metapackage for Ubuntu;
* A distro in its own right;


When that question is answered, then one can address the twin issues of whether Ubuntu Christian Edition should continue to be developed, and if so, what is the more appropriate form to utilize, to ensure its continued existence.

At this point in time, The e-Sword User's Foundation is too unstable to take Ubuntu Christian Edition under its wing. I do foresee The e-Sword User's Foundation working with other software projects to create a Christian metapackage for Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X.

A Christian metapackage would consist of Christian orientated applications and artwork.  A Christian version of the Trinidad and Toboga Computer Society OSSWin disc, http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-cd/index.htm.

Writing Documentation

 Back in 2006 Andy Orem did an interesting research project.
The basic conclusion is below.

When someone comes to a mailing list, there are three possible causes—three types of information failure:

1. The information has not been written anywhere. This is a common problem, despite the vast amount of written computer documentation. There are many subtleties in complex software that have gone unexplained. Information may also be missing for bugs or quirks in newly released software.
2. The information has been written, but it is prohibitively hard to find. This happens because web searches are not perfect, and few projects provide well-organized collections of pointers to the relevant information stored in idiosyncratic places.
3. The information has been written and can be found, but the user does not know how to find it. This is part of the larger education problem I have been discussing.

Do-It-Yourself Documentation?

Research Into the Effectiveness of Mailing Lists

Andy Oram

August 19, 2006

(Revised September 22, 2006)

http://praxagora.com/andyo/professional/mailing_list/mailing_list.html


I am currently writing An e-Sword Users Manual. Much as I would like to think that  The e-Sword Utility Program FAQ would merely put the information into either the prohibitively hard to find category, or the user does not know how to find it category, into the easy to find category, I have become increasingly convinced that it is all in the has not been written anywhere category.

It doesn't matter if it is something as simple as opening a topical file in e-Sword, or as complicated as "I want to study the inflections of the Hebrew middle weak verb, and I want to see what the range of possible variations is for each of the conjugations (perfect, imperative, etc.) person, number, gender, and stem. This means I need to find all the middle weak verbs, find all their occurrences, and organize them in such a way that the variation of their inflections are immediately apparent. The goal of the data organization would be to allow me to write an article about the variations of the Hebrew middle weak verb."

The written documentation is not present. There are videos on YouTube, e-Sword.net, and other locations. But they don't substitute for scanning a document, or a table of contents, looking for how to perform the two things described in the previous paragraph.

It is getting increasingly more difficult for me to write documentation, because my starting point is very different from that of most users. This can be seen in the Bible Software reviews I've written, where my first three test cases are:

• Give the parsing of a word and its meaning from a standard source;
• Show all the occurrences of a word in the NT and LXX and show the Hebrew word which corresponds with the Greek in the LXX (if there is a correspondence);
• Find all the occurrences of oi de in Matthew’s gospel followed by a finite verb within the clause;

Those three examples are from the SBL Bible Software Shootout.  (You can use e-Sword for all five challenges. How to do so is a self-standing volume  of An e-Sword Users Manual.)


It is hard for me to think like a person who does not know how to use a computer.  Fortunately, somebody volunteered to review the documentation I'm writing, and tell me when they don't understand what I've written.  Even better for me, they think like a person that does not know how to use a computer.  Their red lining, and telling me to rewrite the section, has helped write other sections, so that they don't need to be red lined.

That process is more time consuming that I originally anticipated.  But I think the results will be worth it.  And you can blame it all on Andy's research, identifying the major causes for people emailing mailing lists.

FTC Disclosures

All:

As best as I can ascertain, under current FTC disclosure rules, I have not received anything that requires public disclosure between 1 January 2010 and 21 April 2011.

In a different blog, I did list the books I had checked out of the public library. AFAIK, I've only checked one book out of the library this year. A work of science fiction that is best forgotten.

My book, software, and product review blog states how I obtained each item that is reviewed, within the review.

Bible Org Resources for e-Sword

Bible.org offers three sets of resources for e-Sword:

* The NET Bible, with limited notes: This resource is gratis;
* The NET Bible, with all notes: This resource is US$19.99;
* The REB Bible, with footnotes: This resource is US$19.95;

I bought these resources on 17 September 2010.

The commentary resources display in e-Sword 9.6.0.
The Bible resources do not display in my copy of e-Sword 9.6.0






Fortunately, I know how to create e-Sword resources.
In every instance the Details Table failed to conform to e-Sword Resource Format Specification 2 Criteria.

I'm not sure whether it is fortunate, or unfortunate for them, that e-Sword inconsistently checks the data fields in the Details Table.

Fixing the errors in the Details Table did not get the Bible resources to display correctly.

On both the eSword list, and at e-sword-users.org I requested copies of screenshots of these resources. I received five screen-shots, and none of them displayed any of the issues I ran into.

Adding insult to injury, a copy of the gratis NET Bible that I converted from e-Sword Resource Format Specification 1 to e-Sword Resource Format Specification 2 did display correctly.

In walking through the different versions of the NET Bible. (gratis, non-gratis no notes, non-gratis full notes), nothing struck me as being why the different versions behaved differently.

e-Sword Book Numbers

Book	Internal Number
Genesis	1
Exodus	2
Leviticus	3
Numbers	4
Deuteronomy	5
Joshua	6
Judges	7
Ruth	8
1 Samuel	9
2 Samuel	10
1 Kings	11
2 King	12
1 Chronicles	13
2 Chronicles	14
Ezra	15
Nehemiah	16
Esther	17
Job	18
Psalms	19
Proverbs	20
Ecclesiastes	21
Song of Solomon	22
Isaiah	23
Jeremiah	24
Lamentations	25
Ezekiel	26
Daniel	27
Hosea	28
Joel	29
Amos	30
Obediah	31
Jonah	32
Micah	33
Nahum	34
Habakkuk	35
Zephaniah	36
Haggai	37
Zechariah	38
Malachi	39
Matthew	40
Mark	41
Luke	42
John	43
Acts	44
Romans	45
1 Corinthians	46
2 Corinthians	47
Galatians	48
Ephesians	49
Philippians	50
Colossians	51
1 Thessalonians	52
2 Thessalonians	53
1 Timothy	54
2 Timothy	55
Titus	56
Philemon	57
Hebrew	58
James	59
1 Peter	60
2 Peter	61
1 John	62
2 John	63
3 John	64
Jude	65
Revelation	66
Psalm 151	19
The Story of Susanna	27
Bel and the Dragon	27
Tolbit	67
Judith	68
Wisdom of Solomon	69
Sirach	70
Baruch	71
Epistle of Jeremiah	71
1 Maccabees	72
2 Maccabees	73
1 Esdras	74
2 Esdras	75
3 Maccabees	76
4 Maccabees	77
Prayer of Manassah	78

Resource Wish List/Want list

As my previous post implied, I won't be creating any resources for e-Sword/Pocket e-Sword  in the near future.

Currently, the only active teams for creating e-Sword resources are:
* DrDave's Team, which limits itself to Baptist resources;
*The Spanish Resource Creation Team, which usually restricts itself to resources in Spanish;

Both teams have a fairly extensive list of resources that they are working on.

The following is a consolidated list of various wish lists/want lists that I have been given.

All resources are to be created in the following formats:

• e-Sword Resource Format Specification 1;
• e-Sword Resource Format Specification 2;
• Pocket e-Sword Format;

In some instances, resources are currently available in one format, and the request is for one of the other formats.

I have not checked this list for copyright, or other issues.

The resources:

• Brucce FF : Are the NT Documents Reliable
• Chafer LS : Salvation
• Chafer LS : Dispensationalism
• Feeny Jim : Slain In the Spirit
• Feeny Jim : The Mighty Hand of God
• Gray James: Great Epochs of Sacred History
• Leupold : Exposition of Genesis
• Newton I : Observations upon the Prophecies Daniel
• Newton I : The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amen
• Wight F : Manners and Customs of Bible Lands

The following list is from Introduction to Biblical Languages: How to use Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek resources In E-Sword and The Word by Dr Franklin S Jabini:

• Coffey HA 1918. An Accidence of Hebrew Grammar by Henry. Missouri: B. Herder & Co.
• Driver SR 1881. A treatise on the use of the tenses in Hebrew and some other syntactical questions (2^nd edition revised and enlarged). Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
• Ewald GHA 1870. Ewald’s Introductory Grammar. Translated from the 3rd German edition by JF Smith. London: Asher& Co.
• Ewald GHA 1891. Syntax of the Hebrew Language of the Old Testament. Translated from the eighth German edition by J Kennedy. Edinburgh: T & T Clark.
• Mitchell A 1873. The Book of Jonah The text analyzed translated and the accents named Being an easy introduction Hebrew language. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons.
• Nordheimer I 1842. A Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language(2^nd edition).New York: Wiley and Putman.
• Nordheimer I 1838. A grammatical analysis of selections from the Hebrew Scriptures. New York: Wiley and Putman. This book is a grammatical analysis of 63 passages from the Old Testament. The notes refer to his Critical Grammar for further explanation.
• Phillips WT 1880. Elements of Hebrew grammar with a praxis on the book of Jonah. Bristol & Exeter: W. Strong. A basic Hebrew grammar with detailed notes on how to pronounce every word in the book of Jonah, followed by a grammatical analysis.
• Brown CR 1893. An Aramaic method. A class book for the study of the elements of Aramaic from Bible and Targums. Part II. Elements of Grammar (2^nd edition). Chicago: American Publication Society of Hebrew. This part deals with the morphology and syntax of Aramaic.
• Brown CR 1893. An Aramaic method. A class book for the study of the elements of Aramaic from Bible and Targums. Part I. Text, notes, and vocabulary (2^nd edition). New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. Brown provides notes on the Biblical texts and on selected Targumim passages.
• Longfield G 1859. An introduction to the study of the Chaldee language: comprising a grammar based upon Winer's, and an analysis of the text of the Chaldee portion of the Book of Daniel. London: Whittaker & Co. A grammar with detailed notes on the Aramaic portion of Daniel.
• Riggs E 1858. A manual of the Chaldee language containing a Chaldee grammar (4^th edition). New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Co. After explaining the Aramaic grammar, Riggs provided passages from the Targumim with notes for translation. He also provided verse by verse grammatical notes for all the Biblical Aramaic passages.
• Abbott EA 1906. Johannine Grammar. London: Adam and Charles Black.
• Harper WR and Weinder RF 1889. An introductory New Testament Greek method. Together with a manual, containing text and vocabulary of gospel of John and lists of words, and the elements of New Testament Greek grammar. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. An introductory grammar based on the Gospel of John, with explanatory notes.
• Moulton JH 1908. Grammar of New Testament Greek (3rd edition with corrections and additions). Volume 1.Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark.
• Moulton JH 1929. Grammar of New Testament Greek. Volume 2. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark. Moulton’s grammar has been a standard reference grammar for New Testament Greek since its publication.
• Robertson AT 1914. A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research (3^rd edition). New York: Hodder & Stoughton. A standard reference grammar.
• Thackeray HStJ 1909. A Grammar of the Old Testament in Greek. According to the Septuagint. Volume 1. Introduction, Orthography and Accidence. Cambridge: University Press. A standard reference grammar of Septuagint Greek. However, the other volumes were never published.
• Abbott EA 1905. Johannine Vocabulary. A comparison of the words of the Fourth Gospel with those of the Three. London: Adam and Charles Black.
• Moulton JH and Milligan G 1914.The vocabulary of the Greek Testament illustrated from the papyri and other non-literary sources. London: Hodder & Stoughton. A study of New Testament words based on Koine papyri.
• Thayer JH 1889. A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament. Being Grimm's Wilke's Clavis Novi Testamenti, translated, revised and enlarged by Joseph Henry Thayer. New York: American Book Co. The full edition of Thayer’s lexicon.
• Spurrell GJ 1887. Notes on the Hebrew text of the Book of Genesis. With two appendices. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
• Kalisch M 1855. A Historical and Critical Commentary on the Old Testament with a new translation. Exodus. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.
• Kalisch MM 1867. A Historical and Critical Commentary on the Old Testament with a new translation. Leviticus, Part I, Chapters 1-10, with treatises on sacrifices and the Hebrew priesthood. London: Longmans, Green Reader and Dyer.
  
• Kalisch MM 1872. A Historical and Critical Commentary on the Old Testament with a new translation. Leviticus Part II, Chapters 11-27, with treatises. London: Longmans, Green Reader and Dyer.
  
• Lloyd J 1886. The Book of Joshua. A critical and expository commentary of the Hebrew text. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
  
• Driver SR 1913.Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel. With an introduction on Hebrew Palaeography and the Ancient Versions and Facsimiles of inscriptions and maps. Second enlarged edition. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
  
• Burney CF 1903. Notes on the Hebrew Text of Kings. With an introduction and appendix. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
  
• Henderson E 1870.The book of the Prophet Ezekiel. Translated from the original Hebrew with a commentary critical, philological and exegetical. Andover: Warren F. Draper.
  
• Henderson E 1868.The book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. Translated from the original Hebrew with a commentary critical, philological and exegetical. Andover: Warren F. Draper.
• A few great independent classic commentaries are included, and a few collections on the entire New Testament.
• Plummer A 1910. An Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to St. Matthew. London: Elliot Stock
• Swete HB 1902. The Gospel according to St Mark. The Greek text with introduction notes and indices. London: Macmillan and Co.
• Heatley HR 1893. The Gospel according to St. Luke. London: Rivington, Percival and Co.
• Westcott BF 1908. The Gospel according to St John. The Greek text with introduction and notes in two volumes. London: John Murray
• Lumby JR 1891. The Acts of the Apostles. With map, notes and introduction. Cambridge: University Press.
• Hackett HB 1858. A Commentary on the original text of the Acts of the Apostles. A new edition revised and greatly enlarged. Boston: Gould and Lincoln.
• Lightfoot JB 1895. Notes on epistles of St Paul. From unpublished commentaries. London: Macmillan and Co.
• Godet F 1889. Commentary on St. Paul’s first epistle to the Corinthians. Volume 1.Translated from French. Edinburgh: T & T Clark
• Godet F 1890. Commentary on St. Paul’s first epistle to the Corinthians. Volume 2. Translated from French. Edinburgh: T & T Clark
• Lightfoot JB 1887. Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. A Revised Text Introduction, Notes, and Dissertations. London: Macmillan and Co.
• Robinson JA 1903. St Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians .A Revised Text and Translation Exposition and Notes. London: Macmillan and Co.
• Lightfoot JB 1898. Saint Paul's Epistle to the Philippians. A Revised Text with Introduction, Notes, and Dissertations. London: Macmillan and Co.
• Lightfoot JB 1897. Saint Paul's Epistle to the Colossians and to Philemon. A Revised Text with Introduction, Notes, and Dissertations. London: Macmillan and Co.
• Findlay GG 1898. The Epistles of the Thessalonians. With introductions, notes and maps. Cambridge: At the University Press.
• Bernhard JH 1906. The Pastoral Epistles. With introductions and notes. Cambridge: At the University Press.
• Westcott BF 1892. The Epistle to the Hebrews: The Greek Texts with Notes and Essays. London: Macmillan and Co.
• Mayor JB 1892. The Epistle to St James: The Greek Texts with Introduction Notes and Comments. London: Macmillan and Co.
• Hort FJA 1898. The First Epistle to Peter. 1:1-2:17: The Greek Texts with Introductory lecture, Commentary and additional Notes. London: Macmillan and Co.
• Mayor JB 1907. The Epistle of St Jude and the Second Epistle of St Peter: The Greek Texts with Introduction Notes and Comments. London: Macmillan and Co.
• Westcott BF 1886. The Epistles of St John: The Greek Texts with Notes and Essays. London: Macmillan and Co.
• Swete HB 1911. The Apocalypse of St John. The Greek Texts with Introduction Notes and Indices (3^rd edition). London: Macmillan and Co.
• There are a few classic series on the Greek text of the New Testament that are worth consulting. These include:
• Meyer HAW 1884. Critical Exegetical Handbook New Testament. 11 volumes. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
• Nicoll WR (editor) 1902. The Expositor's Greek Testament. 5 Volumes. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company.
• Hebrew Tutor: Learn Biblical Hebrew with Your Own Personal Interactive Tutor [CD-ROM]. Nebraska: Quick Verse.
• Greek Tutor: Learn Biblical Greek with Your Own Personal Interactive Tutor with Flash Cards [CD-ROM]. Nebraska: Quick Verse. 
• Clark WJ 1983. How To Use New Testament Greek Study Aids. Loizeaux Brothers.
• Dronkert K 1964. Gids voor het Oude Testament. Kampen: Uitgeversmaatschappij: JH Kok.
• Jabini F 2010. ‘Review of BibleWorks 8: an introduction for SATS students’. Conspectus. The Journal of the South African Theological Seminary. March 2010. Volume 09.
• Muraoka T 1996. J.P. Lettinga Grammatica van het Bijbels hebreeuws. Tiende, herziene editie met medewerking van W. Th. Van Peursen. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
• Page TE 1886. The Acts of the Apostles. London: Macmillan and Co.
• Wallace DB 1996. Greek grammar beyond the basics: an exegetical syntax of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House.
• Westcott BF 1886. The Epistles of St John: The Greek Texts with Notes and Essays. London: Macmillan and Co.

Some content in that list is under copyright.  Permission to convert and distribute it in e-Sword/Pocket e-Sword format will have to be obtained from the copyright holder.

e-Sword-users.org UP

E-Sword-users.org came back up last week.

I started trying to copy the e-Sword-users.org website to my system when it came back up, in early April.  For various reasons, most of the tools I was using, failed to duplicate the website.

On 14 April, I started using ftp to e-Sword-users.org  from GoDaddy, to home server.

Problem # 1:   The website contains almost 100 GB of data.  I have less than 90GB of free disk space.  I will be burning DVDs, and deleting content, before everything has finished being downloaded;

Problem # 2:  On Thursday --- 14 April --- my Internet connection became even more bizarre, and uncooperative.  By Friday, it was completely down.  Replacing the modem on Saturday fixed it. Later on this week, more work will be done on that connection. Hopefully, that will stabilize it even more;

Problem # 3:  If the keyboard is not used for six hours, the computer shifts into hibernation mode.  Since I'm not using that computer for anything else, it is in hibernation mode for hours at a time.  At the current download speed, the entire site will be transferred to my server on 28 April;

Once everything is transferred to my home server, I will be backing it up to DVDs.  Then I will be removing at least 50 GB of data from the site.  Most of this is duplicate files that were uploaded by two or more people.

I expect that this process will be completed by 1 May.  At that point, I will start constructing a test website on my home network. (This will not be publicly accessible.)  This test website will be the basis of the new e-Sword-users.org website.


Unfortunately, I can not work on this full time.  :(

In order of priority, I will be working on:
* The e-Sword Users Foundation;
* e-Sword Documentation;
* The e-Sword-users Website;

e-Sword-users.org: Up, Down, and when it will be up again.

The file-system that GoDaddy servers use, has a limit of 1024 inodes per directory.   e-Sword-users.org has been exceeding that for a number of months.  GoDaddy sent emails requesting that the number of files and directories be reduced to that number.  Those emails were ignored, and hence GoDaddy shut the site down.

The site will be back up, once I have reduced the number of files, and responded via email, to the emails that they have sent.   Inasmuch as I have neither seen those emails, nor currently have access to them, I don't know when I'll be able to respond via email to GoDaddy's emails.

What Should Happen to e-Sword-users.org

From http://e-sword-users.org/users/node/4934

Which of the following should happen to e-Sword-users.org

• Abandon the Website:                                                     6% (  8 votes) 
• Run it as a one person owned and operated website:  28% (40 votes) 
• Incorporate as a for-profit organization:                       3% (  4 votes) 
• Incorporate as a non-profit organization:                    45% (64 votes) 
• Find an organization to adopt it:                                  15% (22 votes) 
• Something else:                                                               3% (4 votes)

Total votes: 142 

From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eSword/surveys?id=13073779

What should be done with e-Sword-users.org, and the domains it owns?

Abandon the site;	3 votes	3%
Run it as a one person owned and operated website;	28 votes	34%
Incorporate;	25 votes	30%
Find an organization to adopt it;	17 votes	20%
Something else;	8 votes	09%

Total votes: 81

Combined results:

• Abandon the Website:                                                     4.93%   (11 votes) 
• Run it as a one person owned and operated website:  30.49%   (68 votes) 
• Incorporate as a for-profit organization:                        1.79%  (  4 votes) 
• Incorporate as a non-profit organization:                    28.7%     (64 votes) 
• Incorporate:                                                                  11.21%   (25 votes)
• Find an organization to adopt it:                                  17.49%   (39 votes) 
• Something else:                                                               5.38%   (12 votes) 
• Combined Incorporate                                                  41.7%     (93 votes)

Total votes: 223
Votes cast as a percentage of possible votes: 0.8797% 
 
"Combined Incorporate" is the number of votes for "incorporate" from the eSword list poll, plus the number of votes for"incorporate as a non-profit" and "incorporate as a for-profit" in the e-Sword-users poll.

Due to the low number of votes, the results have no statistical significance, or reliability.

Polls: Last Day

The current polls close at midnight 5 April 2011.  I do not know which time zone is used.

From http://e-sword-users.org/users/node/4934/results :

Which of the following should happen to e-Sword-users.org

• Abandon the Website:                                                     7% (  4 votes);
• Run it as a one person owned and operated website:  31% (19 votes);
• Incorporate as a for-profit organization:                       5% (  3 votes);
• Incorporate as a non-profit organization:                    38% (23 votes);
• Find an organization to adopt it:                                  16% (10 votes);
• Something else:                                                               3% ( 2 votes;

Total votes:                                                                 61

Current number of users of e-Sword-users.org:   17949

Percentage of users that have voted:                    0.339851802 %

From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eSword/surveys?id=13073779:

What should be done with e-Sword-users.org, and the domains it owns?

Abandon the site;	2 votes	3%
Run it as a one person owned and operated website;	20 votes	32%
Incorporate;	18 votes	29%
Find an organization to adopt it;	14 votes	22%
Something else;	8 votes	12%

 

Total Votes:                                                    62

Current Number of List Subscribers:            7348

Percentage of subscribers that have voted:  0.843767011%

Poll Results: 4 Days Later

Poll results on what should happen to e-Sword-users.org.

From http://e-sword-users.org/users/node/4934

Which of the following should happen to e-Sword-users.org

• Abandon the Website:                                14%  (3 votes) 
• Run it as a one person owned and operated website:  23% (5 votes) 
• Incorporate as a for-profit organization     5%  (1 vote) 
• Incorporate as a non-profit organization  36% (8 votes) 
• Find an organization to adopt it:               14%  (3 votes) 
• Something else:                                            9%  (2 votes)

Total votes: 22

From
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eSword/surveys?id=13073779

What should be done with e-Sword-users.org, and the domains it owns?

Abandon the site:	2	03%
Run it as a one person owned and operated website:	20	32%
Incorporate:	18	29%
Find an organization to adopt it:	14	22%
Something else:	8	12%

 Total votes: 62.

In the eSword list, somebody commented that "running it as a one person owner and operated website", could very easily lead to a repeat of the current situation.

Whilst my preference is for a Foundation, I'll go along with the results of the polls.  

Technically, that would be a Charitable Trust, because I am seriously looking at what is required to set up a non-profit organization in New Zealand.