[okfn-discuss] The Open Knowledge Wiki Manifesto

[Lane Rasberry]

Hello,

It looks like you are trying to propose best practices for the Open
Knowledge Wiki and to set up community tutorials for using it. Might I
suggest that you either copy Wikipedia resources or just send people to
Wikipedia to learn norms for using a wiki? A big advantage of sending
people to Wikipedia would be that there are actual people there ready to
answer questions. Wikipedia and this wiki also use the same software and I
expect Wikipedia is so influential that people will expect similar
community norms here.

Wikipedia's own help pages would run to over 10,000 printed pages. Perhaps
10% of this information is popular. Most Wikipedians in help spaces are
familiar with all of it.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents/Directory>

To ask any question about Wikipedia and get a fast and friendly response
from a human, go to
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse>

At The Wikipedia Adventure there is a self-guided tour and tutorial for
Wikipedia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure>

There are not less than hundreds of thousands of hours put into Wikipedia's
help spaces! Try to copy what you can or just send people there!

yours,


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> recently we've started using the Open Knowledge Wiki more and more over at
> the School of Data. Doing so I've noticed that there are several good
> practices we should implement to keep our wiki more consistent and
> information together.
>
> I've started drafting a Manifesto here to guide people (heavily inspired by
> pythons "import this")
>
> http://wiki.okfn.org/Wiki_Manifesto
>
> Please add, discuss and correct.
>
> Michael
>
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