On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> GitHub is, I would guess, somewhat less inviting than MediaWiki to > non-tech open culture advocates, who would presumably be a big factor in > any community effort to revitalize OL. I find wiki software to be much of a muchness, but if MediaWiki is an important factor, Github offers 9 markup languages including MediaWiki and Wikia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikia>appears to offer free hosted MediaWiki-based wikis. > Reaching that community is a potential advantage of doing this on > meta.wikimedia.org. There's a difference between Wikimedia (Wikimedia Foundation related projects and stuff) and MediaWiki (wiki software package & associated development project). That site is associated with the former (WMF). Community outreach will be important not matter where it is hosted (even if it's at OpenLibrary). Wikipedia doesn't have a monopoly on folks interested in open information, particularly bibliographic information. Tom
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