[IS4CWN] unconference session today

[Mitar]

Hi!

To be a bit more constructive, instead of trying to recreate existing
work and things which are already there, we all (communities) would
probably find some common full-time librarian very useful. But the
process should be inverse: going over existing wikis of all of us (and
Wikipedia), improving them, interlinking with other wiki contents (you
would know if something similar is happening somewhere else, some
relevant resource there). If somebody would do this all the time, this
"cleaning" stuff, those iterations, this would be great. It would also
make communities more connected. Because currently nobody is regularly
reading content and documentation of all the work everybody is doing.
And it would be great if somebody would do that and then point each
other to "hey, that is doing something similar, you might connect" or
"this manual here is a more in-depth version of the manual you have".

So in the time of Internet a role of librarian is not to make archives
and collect data on one spot but to put order to chaos of too much
information all around and introducing links between information. You do
not have to copy content over, you can just link it. This is what
hyper-text is about.


Mitar

> Hi!
> 
>> The resources you pointed to earlier are great start with key info, we are
>> thinking of extracting some knowledge out of the respective projects (know
>> how, tutorials, what equipment they use, their story, lessons learned etc)
>> and make it visible as highlightes of a more high level directory
> 
> Oh, please, don't create yet another resource. We already have so many
> resources. It is not so big problem copying the resource, the problem is
> keeping it updated. So if you combine data somewhere else, what happens
> when original data is updated?
> 
> This is why Wikipedia is great, because it combines all those efforts on
> one place.
> 
>> we'll be considering what options for a platform that supports
>> faceted browsing, for example one could look up the project by
>> country, language, type of mesh, topography, other criteria (to be
>> agreed)
> 
> The wiki we are using for interop wiki is Trac. Trac supports tags as a
> plugin. But we could also program any additionally functionality you
> might find interesting.
> 
>> question: does anyone know the status of this wiki, and if it is still
>> usable and would/could support faceted browsing?
>> http://communitywireless.org/index.php
> 
> I have not heard about it. It seems last update was 2003? And it is
> backed by some company? Have you write to them? They could give us the
> domain and content over, if they are not interested anymore in
> maintaining it.
> 
> 
> Mitar
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