Depending upon how idiot friendly the server is, and if there is web access, I think I might be able to help set up a wiki. Would Wikimedia be willing to host the site?
________________________________ From: Jeffery Nichols arctic.gnome@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Canada planning list wikimedia-ca@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:14:55 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] A non-bylaw related meeting?
It doesn't have to be a meeting, though I do find that meetings can get quite a bit of work done if enough people show up. To get the ball rolling on this project, I have posted my two cents about how this site might look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Canada/Wikisource_Canada and I encourage everyone to go to that page and tell me what you think Wikisource Canada should be like.
As for the technical side, I don't know much about how to set up a wiki, but I would gladly contribute to paying for some part of the bandwidth until the organization get incorporated or can get a grant from WMF. Do you have an estimate of how much it costs per size of the size and number of hits?
-Jeffery Nichols (Arctic.gnome)
On 15-Jul-09, at 9:19 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Jeffery Nichols wrote:
If people are interested, I would like to get together in an online meeting to discuss what our first project may be. I would especially like to hear some ideas from some of the people who say they are interested in WMC but don't want to work on the bylaws. Before the bylaws can be completed, we need a more specific idea about what we will first do after being established. I have argued that we should try to set up an online database and gallery of Canadian historical and artistic media, but I would like to hear everyone else's ideas, as well as discuss the logistics of setting up that kind of website. Would current participants and people who have not yet attended a meeting be interested in chatting for an hour or so next week on the topic? If so, let me know and I'll set a time.
Of course, I'm never interested in online meetings. They are just not suited to a ponderous person who often pauses before responding to comments.
That said, it's important to remember that Wikipedia was active for more than three years before WMF was incorporated. In those earliest years Jimbo was footing the bills.
The online database is a great idea. What's more important than a discussion of possibilities is for individuals to commit to certain projects and tasks. It's fair enough to say, "I'm not interested in writing by-laws," but at the same time is that person committing to something else. Now it is important for someone to accept personal responsibility for setting up the online database.
Setting up a website is great, and presumably it will employ Mediawiki software. That takes someone to commit to paying for bandwidth, starting the site at a technical level, and installing the basic software.
Using wikisource.ca for this is OK by me as the current owner of the domain name. I will raise the point when I'm at Wikimania, and unless more constructive ideas are raised there will make it available in September to someone who wants to start the website.
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