Concerning platform for interactions I strongly agree with David, in great part because of the nature of Wikimedia projects. Our conversations are not just for ourselves but lay the groundwork for those people who will want to see what and how we've tried to plan things. In that sense, preserving the record on a Wikimedia wiki (Wikipedia or elsewhere) is really essential.As far as social media, I agree again with David that the number of tools we have available threatens to diffuse the focus of what we're trying to accomplish. A tool is only a tool; it should not be our main focus, and due to the variety of people involved, we should select something that everyone is comfortable with.Bob--
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- My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my institutions -On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:03 AM, David Goodman <dggenwp@gmail.com> wrote:
I also agree with Sarah about IRC. However, I also suggest that
organizing a separate wiki would be counterproductive. There are
already too many places for this and similar wikipedia-associated
projects, and I think the appropriate direction is to condense and
concentrate them. Internal is necessary only for things that
inherently cannot be public, and meta only for things which
fundamentally concern cross-wiki matters such as mediawiki platform
development -- other things posted there are normally lost to most of
the enWP community. Similarly for the now-deceased strategy wiki, and
any other accessory projects. .
As this is a US project, working I think almost entirely in English,
appropriate project pages on the enWP is the obvious location. Anyone
outside the WP community could as easily learn to use this as any
separate wiki.
As for other social media, we may need them for outreach, but they do
simply constitute additional places to divide our efforts. I'm aware I
may be old-fashioned in this, and just stubbornly fixed on staying
with mailing lists, the medium I have predominantly used since they
were developed. I did adjust to wikis though, and our projects are so
entwined with WP that it is the natural place.
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Paula Kate Marmor <pkm@pobox.com> wrote:
> I work in technology, i have done online community work since 1991, and I
> heartily loathe IRC, for all the reasons Sarah mentions. Hear, hear.
>
> Paula
>
>
> On Thursday, September 6, 2012, Sarah Stierch wrote:
>>
>> Hi Lori! See my responses inline, as well.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> IRC
>> An open chat platform used often by Wikipedians, but unfamiliar among most
>> GLAM professionals. Arguments can be made for and against; so discuss away.
>>
>>
>> IRC is terrible, archaic, and uncomfortable for the majority of people.
>> This is 2012, not 1992. People are welcome to have an IRC GLAM US channel
>> but I bet, the majority of the people using it are the same old people who
>> use IRC now. I think we should scrap any focus on IRC and communicate
>> through social media, wiki, and mailing lists. I figure, if people want to
>> have me involved in something or have a question for me, they will send me
>> an email, wiki me, or Tweet me - and not sit around and wait for me on IRC.
>>
>> We could always have an IRC office hours for GLAMWIKI but, again, that'd
>> be just a strict ubergeek thing and that's not inclusive of the broader GLAM
>> community (and those of us Wikipedians who hate IRC because we stopped using
>> it when BBSes disappeared).
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sarah Stierch
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