My fellow sporophytes,
I'd like to welcome you to Wikisporadic #1, the Inaugural Issue of an Occasional Newsletter for our Germinating Community.
We'll cover four branch areas for the community, and a suggested Wikispring schedule.
==Social branch== Wikispore is a fairly social project. The idea came out of the NYC Wiknic in July, took form at Wikimania in August, and was first visible after launch at Wikidatacon in October.
We're hoping to take it to the next level at WikiConference North America in November.
We're on Twitter, and have 14 followers! https://twitter.com/wikispore
We have a mailing list of course, and a Telegram channel too.
==Tech branch== We have a wiki on Wikimedia Cloud Services, now live with https working, parserfunctions, and a bunch of leaves: https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
The short-term limitation is not having OAuth, which we should get soon. In the meantime, we recommend you create a new account for the wiki with your existing username, but with a different password.
Our long-term plan for full Wikidata integration is called "Wikisprout", and we're currently at Stage 2, getting on the Interwiki map: https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikisprout
==Spore branch== This is the basic concept for mini-wikis for various genres as an experiment: https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Spores
And these are the two that are most ready for prime time: https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Art_Spore https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Event_Spore
==Policy branch== This is our version of the Five Pillars: https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Tripod
And some more on sourcing, though not as developed: https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Sources
==Wikispring== I'd like to suggest some ideas for collaborative editing on the wiki: Wed Oct 30 - Tue Nov 5: Policy and spore leaves Wed Nov 6 - Tue Nov 12: Event Spore, and this as a potential focus - https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Event:Armistice_Day_2019
**Letters from the editors** Questions? Ideas? Concerns? Ask in this thread!
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 6:39 PM Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
==Tech branch== We have a wiki on Wikimedia Cloud Services, now live with https working, parserfunctions, and a bunch of leaves: https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
The short-term limitation is not having OAuth, which we should get soon. In the meantime, we recommend you create a new account for the wiki with your existing username, but with a different password.
Our long-term plan for full Wikidata integration is called "Wikisprout", and we're currently at Stage 2, getting on the Interwiki map: https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikisprout
If you are interested in getting involved in the tech branch, there's a Phabricator board [1] and Cloud VPS documentation [2]. Wikibase skills are probably what we need most at this point, but there's also plenty of things to do in wiki administration, MediaWiki extensions, wiki templates...
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4250/ [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Wikispore