The wiki is bubble-gummy enough to gin up a rough working skeleton of
a project, but that's a bit geeky.
Our wiki doesn't necessarily foment dialog, conversation, multiple
threads, sophisticated Facebook-automatic translation technology,
(magic, as far as I know) like an old-fashioned tree-structured
forum, with moderators and such. I'll land somewhere around here,
perhaps as Steve Coast says "US states" seem like a cleaving place (I
don't want to put words in his mouth) and I agree: US states is a
natural place to continue cleaving hierarchical scattering and
identification of specific communities.
The wiki is a rather rough-and-ready place for that (e.g.
California/Railroads), but it isn't tree-structured forum like other
places are. We have a place for those dedicated to craftily building
wikis, but that certainly isn't for everybody. We talk of a place as
we say "tree-structured forum-ish with a cleaving around US states is
a place to go." Sure, maybe next. I might say it is an emerging
consensus, but I must listen more.
Other places can be extended to be more statewide-conversation
threaded, or perhaps something new and fancier can be dreamed of
here. With software, it is sometimes "wish" software: a whisper
along these lines gets mentioned in the right hallway or lunchroom,
some dedicated volunteer finds some Libre/GNU code and
tap-tap-hammers for a few days some custom scripts while listening to
a community of consensus, and pow, we've got something. OSM is a big
project, and this could happen. Heck, it might already be happening.
Build a good channel (forum-based-community...at least until the
better next is here), and they will come.
I appreciate the listening that happens here.
SteveA
California
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