I think that community needs a general wiki list. Such list would be used for wiki projects in general, not only for WM projects.
For example, if someone wants to discuss about his/her idea for a new wiki project, (s)he needs a general place to do that. In general, such talks on wikipedia-l or foundation-l lists are off topic. Or if people want to talk in general about wiki projects, it should be discussed there.
And I think that it should be hosted by WM because it is the center of wiki world.
Anyone against it? :)
On 8/22/07, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
I think that community needs a general wiki list. Such list would be used for wiki projects in general, not only for WM projects.
...
And I think that it should be hosted by WM because it is the center of wiki world.
I think many people would actually be a bit flustered if we tried to create a "neutral" wiki discussion list. A better place for that seems to me a site like wiki.org, which is operated by Ward Cunningham. Perhaps you should ask him if he'd be willing to host it?
On 8/22/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
I think many people would actually be a bit flustered if we tried to create a "neutral" wiki discussion list. A better place for that seems to me a site like wiki.org, which is operated by Ward Cunningham. Perhaps you should ask him if he'd be willing to host it?
While I still think that such list should be hosted by WM and that there are a number of reasons why it should be, I realize that the situation is not clear enough and that it is the best to open the list somewhere else.
So, I asked ibiblio for a list and supporting wiki, because I think that it is the most neutral territory. However, if some similar project grows (or it is grown, but for now unknown), merging two projects will be desired.
Angela told me about spreadwiki.org project which is still in development phase. As the goals of that project are to spread and help in adoption of wiki technology, it is very close to the aim of the list which I want to make. However, I think that making list and it's supporting wiki have very simple requirements (software and organizational) and that it is possible to be made immediately. So, when spreadwiki starts to exist on the net, we may merge projects.
And there are some more points:
- List/wiki should be administrated by delegates of all major wiki projects (what is major wiki project?) or by delegates of delegates. Is someone else interested in definitions and organization? Related to this, some balance between participating projects and people participating in the projects should be found (it shouldn't be good that WM projects eat all others because of the number of contributors, but it shouldn't be good that WM is represented like projects with 10 contributors). - List/wiki should be promoted on the participating wikis as a general one. - The goal of the list/wiki is to gather different ideas related to the wiki concept. So, it is preferable to give to different people possibility to talk. However, it shouldn't be used for bizarre and nonsense ideas as well as it shouldn't be used for hate speech and similar things. This means that while a majority of wiki projects are welcome in the administrating body, some of them are not, for sure (a week or two ago I think that someone pointed to one of such wikis; I forgot the name of the wiki). - People from ibiblio are fast and it seems that the project will be up today. However, some more discussion here would be a good idea.
On 23/08/07, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
And there are some more points:
- List/wiki should be administrated by delegates of all major wiki
projects (what is major wiki project?) or by delegates of delegates.
I don't think it's necessary; just get a moderator who will jump on people who are hostile. (And no I'm not volunteering :)) You can hardly mandate membership requirements for an open mailing list.
I'm not sure if you intend this to be for all users/developers of all wiki engines, or all editors on all specific wiki sites. Either way, there are some interesting things out there I'm sure we could learn from.
cheers Brianna
On 8/23/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think it's necessary; just get a moderator who will jump on people who are hostile. (And no I'm not volunteering :)) You can hardly mandate membership requirements for an open mailing list.
The intention was just to show that the list shouldn't be a dominated by one group, but also to find some model against destructive people. And to put it into one rule. It seems that I am too much influenced by continental way of generating social rules ;) As you say...
I'm not sure if you intend this to be for all users/developers of all wiki engines, or all editors on all specific wiki sites. Either way, there are some interesting things out there I'm sure we could learn from.
I think that it should be a llist of all users and developers of all wiki engines.
My primary intention was to make a place where people would be able to talk about wiki projects in general (or particular, whatever), but not related exclusively to WM projects. Even I am for a long time well introduced where to ask what, I completely understand frustration of the people who are trying to give some idea and to discuss about it, but very soon they realize that anything which is not related to WM is off topic here. So, wider community needs a general list where such talks will not be off topic.
But, while thinking about the list (and supporting wiki) I realized that they may be used fo a number of other interesting things.
For example, while MediaWiki today is growing into a dominant wiki engine, I think that pywikipediabot is the core of a new generation wiki engine which should replace MW in some future. But, even it is safe to say that both projects are WM projects, there is no list to discuss about that (mediawiki is for MediaWiki, wikitech is for Wikimedia related technical things, pywikipedia is for a pywikipediabot; maybe wikiresearch? but how many developers of MW and pwb are there?).
Or, I think that MediaWiki is better software for revision control then CVS/SVN. And there is no place to talk about it wider. I would like to talk about it with, for example, some Apache developer generally interested in wiki concept. And it is hard to say that such person is willing to be on MW list and catches interesting things from 99% talk about MW features and bugs.
Those were my today's thoughts :) And I am sure that there are a lot of things related to wiki concept which are simply off topic at the most of wiki places.
I think there should be rules of participation within any mailing list. There are always one or two people who are intent upon upsetting the applecart.
FYI Herewith the (proposed) rules that have been formulated by the General Assembly of the GNSO within ICANN.
www.geolang.com/draftGAListRules5.htm
Best
Debbie
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Milos Rancic Sent: 23 August 2007 03:02 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] A general wiki list?
On 8/23/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think it's necessary; just get a moderator who will jump on people who are hostile. (And no I'm not volunteering :)) You can hardly mandate membership requirements for an open mailing list.
The intention was just to show that the list shouldn't be a dominated by one group, but also to find some model against destructive people. And to put it into one rule. It seems that I am too much influenced by continental way of generating social rules ;) As you say...
I'm not sure if you intend this to be for all
users/developers of all
wiki engines, or all editors on all specific wiki sites.
Either way,
there are some interesting things out there I'm sure we could learn from.
I think that it should be a llist of all users and developers of all wiki engines.
My primary intention was to make a place where people would be able to talk about wiki projects in general (or particular, whatever), but not related exclusively to WM projects. Even I am for a long time well introduced where to ask what, I completely understand frustration of the people who are trying to give some idea and to discuss about it, but very soon they realize that anything which is not related to WM is off topic here. So, wider community needs a general list where such talks will not be off topic.
But, while thinking about the list (and supporting wiki) I realized that they may be used fo a number of other interesting things.
For example, while MediaWiki today is growing into a dominant wiki engine, I think that pywikipediabot is the core of a new generation wiki engine which should replace MW in some future. But, even it is safe to say that both projects are WM projects, there is no list to discuss about that (mediawiki is for MediaWiki, wikitech is for Wikimedia related technical things, pywikipedia is for a pywikipediabot; maybe wikiresearch? but how many developers of MW and pwb are there?).
Or, I think that MediaWiki is better software for revision control then CVS/SVN. And there is no place to talk about it wider. I would like to talk about it with, for example, some Apache developer generally interested in wiki concept. And it is hard to say that such person is willing to be on MW list and catches interesting things from 99% talk about MW features and bugs.
Those were my today's thoughts :) And I am sure that there are a lot of things related to wiki concept which are simply off topic at the most of wiki places.
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On 8/22/07, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
Angela told me about spreadwiki.org project which is still in development phase.
Did you get that url right? spreadwiki.org looks like a spamdexing site.
On 8/23/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Did you get that url right? spreadwiki.org looks like a spamdexing site.
It hasn't launched yet. That's just the screen you get when you buy a domain and haven't yet put anything there.
Angela
I like the idea of a wikimedia list about wikis in general, as concept, philosophy, methodology, community type, and tool that has been well used in many ways -- to further the shared goals of the wikimedia foundation, the wikipedia community, and its sister communities.
It would not quite be the same as a 'spreadwiki' list outside of wikimedia, but a fine place for discussion about wikis in general, something which illuminated much of the first years of Wikipedia's community and content development.
SJ -- +1 617 529.4266 skype: metasj en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sj One Laptop per Child sj@laptop.org wiki.laptop.org/go/Content
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Anthony wrote:
On 8/22/07, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
Angela told me about spreadwiki.org project which is still in development phase.
Did you get that url right? spreadwiki.org looks like a spamdexing site.
foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
There is a list on MediaWiki.org of wikis that use the MediaWiki software somewhere.
On 8/22/07, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
I think that community needs a general wiki list. Such list would be used for wiki projects in general, not only for WM projects.
For example, if someone wants to discuss about his/her idea for a new wiki project, (s)he needs a general place to do that. In general, such talks on wikipedia-l or foundation-l lists are off topic. Or if people want to talk in general about wiki projects, it should be discussed there.
And I think that it should be hosted by WM because it is the center of wiki world.
Anyone against it? :)
foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki
On 8/23/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
There is a list on MediaWiki.org of wikis that use the MediaWiki software somewhere.
On 8/22/07, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
I think that community needs a general wiki list. Such list would be used for wiki projects in general, not only for WM projects.
For example, if someone wants to discuss about his/her idea for a new wiki project, (s)he needs a general place to do that. In general, such talks on wikipedia-l or foundation-l lists are off topic. Or if people want to talk in general about wiki projects, it should be discussed there.
And I think that it should be hosted by WM because it is the center of wiki world.
Anyone against it? :)
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On 8/23/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
There is a list on MediaWiki.org of wikis that use the MediaWiki software somewhere.
Yes, this is the most relevant list for MW sites. However, a general list should consist projects which uses other wiki engines.
Hi Milos,
this has been tried, with little or no success. My feeling was that there simply is too little that motivates people to join and contribute on a general list. Or maybe marketing wasn't good enough.
The Wiki Symposium has a couple of lists:
1. wiki-research 2. wiki-standards 3. wikisym-announce
Only list 3 is Wiki Symposium specific.
Then there is the Semantic Mediawiki list (swikg). Max Voelkel had created a general list (wikig) in 2006 list but it died quickly due to lack of interest. For that reason, I never created a wiki-general list on the WikiSym mailing list server.
I don't want to be too pessimistic, but what has changed? What specific topics would you discuss on a general list?
Thanks, Dirk
Milos Rancic wrote:
I think that community needs a general wiki list. Such list would be used for wiki projects in general, not only for WM projects.
For example, if someone wants to discuss about his/her idea for a new wiki project, (s)he needs a general place to do that. In general, such talks on wikipedia-l or foundation-l lists are off topic. Or if people want to talk in general about wiki projects, it should be discussed there.
And I think that it should be hosted by WM because it is the center of wiki world.
Anyone against it? :)
foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
On 8/23/07, Dirk Riehle dirk@riehle.org wrote:
this has been tried, with little or no success. My feeling was that there simply is too little that motivates people to join and contribute on a general list. Or maybe marketing wasn't good enough.
It seems that it is about marketing. I am active in wiki communities since the first half of 2004 and I didn't hear for wikisym. OK, I am not perfectly informed, but this makes me as a very good example.
Actually, if I knew for wikisym and your lists, I wouldn't ask ibiblio for the list because your project seems to me neutral enough. (Please, wait for a couple of days, I want to see what is going on with ibiblio. It is reasonable to use your project as a base for the list and a supporting wiki.)
Such general list should be recognized by other wiki projects as a common good. This means that page like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/overview is (aka http://lists.wikimedia.org/) should have such list(s) at the first place (or after the most important like foundation-l and wikipedia-l are). And on other project, too.
I don't want to be too pessimistic, but what has changed? What specific topics would you discuss on a general list?
Wikimedia development teach us very good about steps of making lists. First of all, we need a general list, then, if discussion spread into a couple of important fields, lists should be separated.
I feel that we need a general list to talk about (all of the subjects are off topic on WM lists):
- "I have a good idea for a wiki project and I want to talk with tother" - This wiki engine has very good features and it would be good if that wiki engine adopt those features. - Yes, standards. AFAIK, only tiki-wiki syntax is RFC'd. But, MW syntax is de facto standard and it is easier to use. And it is not reasonable to have a tone of dialects. We need both: RFC and ISO. - We need, also, to define standard features of one wiki engine. For example, I think that "recent changes" feature has to be a standard as well as comparing two versions of one article. - As SJ mentioned, we need a general list to talk about wiki philosophy, too. (Actually, "philosophy" is maybe a hard word; but a lot of meta issues related to philosophy are important to talk about: What are social responsibilities of one wiki contributor? Did wiki bring something new to the society and if it did, what did it bring? ... - Cooperation between different projects. For example, I want to keep merged a set of articles related to the Green Party of Canada between my fictional wiki and wiki of GPC. If we made a deal about such merging, we need a place where to announce it. - (and so on)
Finally, the project is almost started. However, we need to wait for a while for a mailing list. Wiki is up (http://www.ibiblio.org/wikiworld/), even it is not the central part of the project. (However, it is useful for gathering ideas from the mailing list.)
Starting FAQ is available here: http://www.ibiblio.org/wikiworld/index.php/Wiki_World:FAQ
Some more explanations (including an FAQ) are available here: http://millosh.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/wiki-world-almost-started/
And there are a couple of issues related to Wikimedia:
- When the list would be ready, I think that it should stay somewhere at the first half of the page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/overview (aka http://lists.wikimedia.org/). Any objection?
- While wiki is important only as a repository of resources and ideas, I think that it should also be mentioned *somewhere* inside of Wikimedia/Wikipedia manuals. However, I don't have an idea where.
I'll make a wider announce when list becomes ready.
On 8/22/07, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
I think that community needs a general wiki list. Such list would be used for wiki projects in general, not only for WM projects.
For example, if someone wants to discuss about his/her idea for a new wiki project, (s)he needs a general place to do that. In general, such talks on wikipedia-l or foundation-l lists are off topic. Or if people want to talk in general about wiki projects, it should be discussed there.
And I think that it should be hosted by WM because it is the center of wiki world.
Anyone against it? :)
The list is finally up. All interested in general discussions about wikis may join via http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiworld
I'll start with announcing list on other places as soon as possible.
Also, anyone interested in the initial managing the project may contact me.
On 8/28/07, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
Finally, the project is almost started. However, we need to wait for a while for a mailing list. Wiki is up (http://www.ibiblio.org/wikiworld/), even it is not the central part of the project. (However, it is useful for gathering ideas from the mailing list.)
Starting FAQ is available here: http://www.ibiblio.org/wikiworld/index.php/Wiki_World:FAQ
Some more explanations (including an FAQ) are available here: http://millosh.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/wiki-world-almost-started/
And there are a couple of issues related to Wikimedia:
- When the list would be ready, I think that it should stay somewhere
at the first half of the page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/overview (aka http://lists.wikimedia.org/). Any objection?
- While wiki is important only as a repository of resources and ideas,
I think that it should also be mentioned *somewhere* inside of Wikimedia/Wikipedia manuals. However, I don't have an idea where.
I'll make a wider announce when list becomes ready.
On 8/22/07, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
I think that community needs a general wiki list. Such list would be used for wiki projects in general, not only for WM projects.
For example, if someone wants to discuss about his/her idea for a new wiki project, (s)he needs a general place to do that. In general, such talks on wikipedia-l or foundation-l lists are off topic. Or if people want to talk in general about wiki projects, it should be discussed there.
And I think that it should be hosted by WM because it is the center of wiki world.
Anyone against it? :)
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org