[wsfii-discuss] Fw: Re: Wikimania report

Thu Aug 11 15:00:58 UTC 2005

Jo,

I've been looking at a tool called hieraki for use with the book sprint, 
but haven't made a final decision yet. Hieraki (http://hieraki.org/) has 
the definite advantage that we can host it locally, the interface is 
clean and simple, and targetted towards collaborative book writing, and 
it's hackable (more ruby on rails).

wikibooks of course has the advantage that it's public, well known (or 
at least sibling of a well known system), and perhaps tied to an 
existing community.

Right now I am leaning towards the locally hosted, more controlled 
hieraki idea, but i am open to arguments to the contrary.

cheers

/tomas

Jo Walsh wrote:

>thoughts from Arnulf, who's been socialising geo-wiki ideas at
>Wikimania, in re using Wikipedia as a promotion platform for WSFII.
>I'm not sure what it would involve, but seems interesting.
>Is there a book-writing platform for the book sprint decided on?
>Would it make sense to do it via http://www.wikibooks.org/ ?
>
>----- Forwarded message from Arnulf Christl <arnulf.christl at ccgis.de> -----
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>I was sort of a little surprised that they (Wikimedians) didn't know or 
>even had heard of wsfii?!? How can this be? It would probably wash quite 
>a lot of attention on your world summit if we use Wikipedia's 
>infrastructure to promote it. Do you want that much promotion or do you 
>rather want to keep it more under cover. Enlighten me.
>
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