My only criteria for where the wiki is hosted is that it be 1) not dependent on an individual 2) preferably associated with a known "open" community or a stable institution that promotes openness
I like the idea of joining forces with others in the open bibliographic space. Unfortunately, so far I haven't found an appropriate place, but keep hoping that there is something I have overlooked. ;-) kc On 3/13/13 8:39 AM, John Rigdon wrote: > > 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] >> > > > -- 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]
