I realize that it's confusing because the software and the groups use the same name, but I'm referring to:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups We did discuss the possibility of hosting our own wiki somewhere, but 1) the Archive appears not to be interested and 2) we wanted someplace stable. OKFN doesn't have such a service available, so the offer of use of the mediawiki wiki group capability seems to be the best idea so far. Other ideas are of course welcome. kc On 3/13/13 8:21 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Karen Coyle <[email protected] > <mailto:[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 > <http://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 -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
