I suggest we keep an "arm's distance" simply because we can do what we want as a working "Friends of Open LIbrary.Org" (FOLIO) without having to wait for approval, or guidelines.
Several years ago the Friends of KIVA started up as a non-affiliated group which was / is totally dedicated to support of KIVA, but we found early on that we could do things ourselves within our group which supported the mission of KIVA without having to get a sign off of all the folks there. They have become and remain quite supportive of the user's group, but don't feel the need to maintain oversite. As to where the WIKI is hosted if not on OL or IA, I don't think it matters. I could set one up on one of my servers and even go ahead and register a domain name within a matter of minutes if that is agreed the direction we need to go. John Rigdon > 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] > _______________________________________________ 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]
