[IMC-US] Re: [announce] Re: indyconference feature?

[clara]

hi,

after some irc discussion... how about the following:

(1) let's get this feature up with the links to the wiki.

(2) don't use this as presedent, because in other discussions in the 
last year or so, others have decided against direct links to wiki pages, 
in order to keep wiki as working resource for indymedia without having 
to deal with trolls (we had some incidents of pages being completely 
rewritten in conflicts, and of non-indymedia groups using it). So let's 
follow this up with a more general discussion of how to make wiki known 
in indymedia as a working resource without attracking hostile trolls.

love and soldiarity
clara

clara wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i don't think that features are not the best way to inform indymedia 
> activists about wiki. That should or could be much better done through 
> lists or contacts. given how many people don't know about wiki or irc 
> that's necessary anyway. (apparently some new-imc sponsors don't even 
> find it necessary to tell a new collective about those tools)
> 
> i think wiki is a working resource, that's something different then a 
> publishing medium. with all discussions about the publicity around 
> ahimsa and in a lot of other case we have decided against linking 
> directly to wiki pages. and just making facts is not really a nice way 
> to go about other peoples' concerns.
> 
> love and solidarity
> clara
> 
> Steev Hise wrote:
> 
>> on Fri, 4 Mar 2005 garcondumonde told me:
>>
>> ->evan wrote:
>> ->| Yes, but how are indymedia activists going to discover the wiki? We
>> ->| have a huge number of people in indyemdia who don't know about teh
>> ->| docs site and for that reason they stay outside of the loop.
>> ->|
>> ->
>> ->i totally agree with rabble here. i'm on the twiki-admin group and 
>> we can - and
>> ->will, and must - deal with trolls.  there is no point hiding stuff 
>> from people:
>> ->indymedia is about openness and including everyone, not some global 
>> elite.
>> ->
>> ->conclusion: link to wiki!
>>
>> I totally agree as well. I only brought up the issue because it
>> was discussed at length at the beginning of the conference.  but
>> whatever anyone's opinion is, the fact that there's already links
>> to the wiki, prettty much from every imc site, seems to indicate
>> we shouldn't worry about it, the cat's out of the bag.
>>
>> smh
>>
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