On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, it is a wiki. However, it currently doesn't have a way to manage > different levels of permissions, and it may take a while to get that. I > have requested a single directory that would be open access (similar to > how the bibliographic pages are open for editing by anyone). We would > probably, though, want to be able to create a page structure that is > more useful than just a blank page, but I believe that also requires > certain permissions. > > If such a directory could be created, though, it would be a good place > to start. I tried creating a new page, both under my account and under > the main openlibrary.org directory, but they were blocked for editing > and I don't have a way to make them public. (That I know of) > Ben & I can edit in the /dev tree and I just confirmed that I can create a new page ( http://openlibrary.org/dev/test) so setting up something similar for the user community would seem to be technically feasible. It would require pre-approval of accounts for editing, but other than that, it should be pretty straightforward. The main questions would be whether it should use the current group (librarians, I think) or a new one and what the root of the tree should be. If hosting on OpenLibrary isn't feasible, my second choice would probably be to flip the bit to turn on the Github wiki at https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/wiki You can see what it would look like at my fork here: https://github.com/tfmorris/openlibrary/wiki This would have the advantage of being fully distributed with the ability to fork & merge as well as redundancy and distributed control by virtue of the multiple copies. My third choice would be the free tier of one of the hosting services here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_hosting_services While John Rigdon's offer is very generous, I agree with Karen that this shouldn't be controlled by an individual (not saying anything about John's intentions!). Tom
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