Silly question: Isn't OL already one big wiki? Some pages are not specific bibliographical pages and can be edited normally. They are not editable by anyone but that's a matte of rights and groups of pages. I think fragmentation is not a good thing. If we try to gather information in a wiki, why elsewhere then on OL.org?
kltrg Am 13.03.2013 17:05, schrieb Karen Coyle: > 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] >>> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ 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]
