I think we'll continue to use email for the discussion part, unless someone knows of a better solution. The wiki idea (and it could also be another technology) is that we don't currently have any place to make a list of projects that people are undertaking -- great stuff passes through this list, but then it's gone. So the pages would be documentation about community projects, who's using the API, what people have learned about writing bots, etc. Right now there is almost no one with write permission on the OL pages, so we don't have a way to update the documentation or even update links. I have permission to change most pages, but I'm not the one who has the content to offer. I can create new pages, but they can only be edited by others with admin permissions. (I don't even know who those people are at this time.) Also, as I discovered today, some of the parts of the documentation pages are not editable using the OL edit feature -- there seems to be quite a bit that is part of the HTML, and my guess is that only Anand has access to that. I still haven't discovered where it is stored.
*sigh* It's kind of a bandaid approach, but I'm otherwise at a loss for solutions. All ideas welcome. kc On 3/15/13 4:57 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: > And how! or +1 > > I agree that wikis are lousy for discussion. They seem to work well for > online encyclopedias but I wouldn't want to have to use one for planning > the encyclopedia. > > Lori Aure > > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Lee Passey <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On Thu, March 14, 2013 8:47 am, Lars Aronsson wrote: > > > Before discussing a new tool, what are we trying to achieve? > > Anyone can install the Mediawiki software, with or without > > some extensions, and try new ideas on a small scale, but > > what are those ideas that you want to try? > > I continue to be bewildered about why any kind of Wiki software is > desirable at this point. Wikis are great tools for documentation and > exposition, but not so great for discussion and consensus. Beware the > hammer/nail syndrome: "When your only tool is a hammer, every problem > looks like a nail." > > > What else is needed, and what role does OpenLibrary > > play? When we know this, I think we can find the > > right tool for the task. > > +10! > > Right now, it appears to me that Open Book Catalog is lacking a vision > and a visionary. Even the platitude "one web page for every book" is so > broad as to be essentially meaningless. That is what we already have, so > what's missing? The data may be incomplete, it may be unreliable, it may > be unreusable for legal reasons, it may be unreusable for technical > reasons, and it may not lead to any actual content, but hey, there /is/ > one web page for every book! > > A wiki is a great way to expose our vision to the world, and to help the > rest of the world to profit from that vision, but it's a lousy way to > develop the vision in the first place. A contentious (and archived) > mailing list is a much better tool for that. When a vision is in place > /then/ we can decide how to surface it. > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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] > -- 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]
