Dear OL'ers, Some more clarifications adding up to what Tom said: - Software: I suggest taking a look to the combination of Mediawiki + Extension:Wikibase [1], which is the one used in the Wikidata project [2]. Said extension allows to use a wiki as a structured data repository, which, I think, it should be one of the main aims here. Wikidata is going to include book records, but the scope is not as focused in books as OL, so it makes sense to have a separate project and make as many modifications as needed. - Hosting: I would suggest to have an independent hosting during the development/transition phase. The WMF has adopted projects in the past and right now there is another adoption process [3] going on for Omegawiki. The prerequisites are to use mediawiki, to have aligned goals, and to have support from the community. By being independently hosted several options can be explored without committing upfront. - Resources: is it realistically feasible ? How much effort could it take?
Cheers, David [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase [2] https://www.wikidata.org [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Adopt_OmegaWiki On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Karen Coyle <[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. > > Thanks, > kc > -- > 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] > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non
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