On 3/13/13 11:14 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
> > 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. Tom, this was the test that Ben and I did the other day. I, too, can edit and add pages, but I cannot make them open to other editors (other than the folks who already have privileges). I cannot edit your /dev/ page if I am not logged in with a specific account. So we are dependent on someone (Anand?) to give privileges *individually* which just doesn't scale. This is why I was hoping that it would be possible to create a directory that was by definition public write (the way that the bib pages are). That would give us a playground where privileges are not an issue. > > 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. Again, how would privileges get set? Would someone have to give privileges individually? > > 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 That's fine with me. Does anyone have preferences? kc > > 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 > > -- 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]
