W3C wiki instead of our CG silo wiki, IRC #fedsocweb vs. #federated

Greetings public-fedsocweb,

1. Summary: Let's move to using
http://www.w3.org/wiki/Federatedsocialweb/ for our wiki.

For the past 3 months, the only people editing our CG-specific wiki
are Evan P. and myself.

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=365

There's a reason for this: CG-specific wikis.

I'm not sure how or why W3C decided to default to giving each WG/CG
it's own Wiki-silo that only members of that WG can edit. It was a
bad/dumb idea.

* biggest problem: reduces/discourages contributions from those
outside this CG (wikis work because nice people perform helpful
drive-by edits. requiring a separate account, or worse, formally
joining some "group" discourages this greatly).

* also: inconvenient to have to login multiple times to edit multiple W3C wikis


I'd like to start using http://www.w3.org/wiki/Federatedsocialweb as
our "official" CG wiki.

Evan, what do you think, and how easy/hard is it to change the "Wiki"
link on the top left of http://www.w3.org/community/fedsocweb/ to link
to http://www.w3.org/wiki/Federatedsocialweb/ ?

I'm proposing we leave the
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/ in place as
a time capsule of sorts for the IG and other work to date through
2012.

Thanks,

Tantek

2. P.S. Should we switch to #federated?

P.S. While you're there (in that top left corner), I noticed that
no-one is in the "Chat" IRC channel #fedsocweb. However there are
bunch of folks left over from previous discussions in #federated.
Should we consider switching our official CG IRC channel to #federated
(since that's where people are?)

Alternatively, everyone here is invited to check out:
irc://irc.freenode.net/indiewebcamp (archives:
http://indiewebcamp.com/irc ) where there are healthy discussions on
these sorts of topics on a nearly *daily* basis (more often than this
mailing list).

Received on Friday, 21 December 2012 21:19:08 UTC