> 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.
It's not the markup that poses a barrier, but the place. Many people will likely see a GitHub URL and assume that this discussion is not for them. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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] > > -- -Tom Johnson
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