At 01:19 +0200 31/3/06, Anthere wrote:
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Let me copy here LinuxBeak proposal so that you understand better...
Alex writes
Well, besides from being a clean canvas that we can work from, it would boast some things that Meta currently does not:
A.) It would be heavily based upon most of the policies from en.wikipedia. Some things can change, but it will be a site designed with the purpose of being an extention of en.wikipedia instead of an entirely separate project. Meta2 will exist for Wikipedia instead of being a standalone project.
B.) Seeing that it is being built from the ground up, it will be several exponential degrees easier to keep things organized in a clear and concise manner. Read: categorization.
C.) It would be much cleaner and accessible by regular Wikipedians. Meta as it stands right now frightens many people on en. I know... I've talked to them.
D.) Old material three years from now would be in a category called "archive" or something akin.
E.) It would have the potential expandability that Meta boasts, except in a more defined and controlable setting.
--Alex
Meta is evidently not a cross-project work wiki or service wiki for other projects, but a separate community unto itself, somewhat like Commons. (Recall en:'s problems with vandalism of images stored on Commons, and how we eventually had to resort to storing featured images directly on en: owing to the recalcitrance of Commons admins who insisted they were an independent project, never mind Commons was *invented* as a service wiki.) I'm not entirely sure what the point is, but I'm sure someone will follow up with what makes a wiki where the community do their actual work in IRC and mailing lists into a work wiki whose use is clear to those not in the inner circle.
- d.
I am glad :-) You admitted there was a meta community ;-) Note : a *meta* community, not a *wiki* community ;-) Thanks David
ant
Indeed. Not a wiki at all, perhaps.
Are there any groupware experts out there?
In the meantime, here are some handy references to the extant body of knowledge:
1)
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/groupware/
2) TOWER "Theatre of Work Enabling Relationships" , which uses BSCW. I worked for the TOWER project for three months in 2002 at Bartlett Research (UCL)
http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/projects/tower
http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/
"What is BSCW?
BSCW (Basic Support for Cooperative Work) enables collaboration over the Web. BSCW is a 'shared workspace' system which supports document upload, event notification, group management and much more. "
3)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupware