On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ol-techies, > > During a discussion with the Open Bibliography sub-group of the Open > Knowledge Foundation, it was suggested that we could become a mediawiki > group on http://mediawiki.org. This would give us full media-wiki > capabilities and has an added advantage that it could stimulate other > bibliographic projects. I will hold a short call with a small group to > brainstorm on getting started and the structure of the initial pages. > But first I wanted to pass the idea along here and see if there are any > strong reactions one way or the other. As a point of clarification, MediaWiki is the name of the software (and associated development project), so one doesn't really become a MediaWiki group. All you'd need to do is install it (or find a hosted version somewhere). I think there are a few different, related questions here: - Is it useful to have a generally editable wiki that's easier to manage than editing pages on the current openlibrary.org (which only a few people have access to)? - Is MediaWiki (the software) the right software for that or would one of these others be better: http://www.wikimatrix.org/ - Is it better to look for a hosted wiki service or install the chosen software on OpenLibrary servers? - Does it make sense to have the wiki be affiliated with a group that has similar goals such as Wikimedia Foundation? (Would make for easy hosting & software selection, but has other implications) At least that's my take on it, but it was Karen's question! Tom
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