I thought this would be of interest here as well. --Dirk
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:37:37 +0100
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>rg>,
Board Wikimedia Foundation <board(a)wikimedia.org>
From: Dirk Riehle <dirk(a)riehle.org>
Subject: Technical wiki standards (was: Re: [Foundation-l] Request
for approval for a wiki for standards
Hi everyone interested in wiki standards:
If you are talking about technical standards (wiki markup,
interlinking, interchange, etc.):
At WikiSym 2005 (
www.wikisym.org) many of the Wiki engine
implementors met (including Brion Vibber) to tackle the issue of
standardizing wiki protocols once more. (Attempts have been there
for ages, but with limited progress.)
Previous attempts were made on a couple of independent sites,
including Ward's Wiki, Meatball, CommunityWiki. None of these sites
was really representative of the whole community, so we decided to
have a new attempt supported by WikiSym and its community, i.e. a
mailing list
(
http://www.wikisym.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wiki-standards) and
a wiki (
http://wiki.wikisym.org). The mailing list is working, the
wiki (a MediaWiki installation) has been dormant so far as we are
gearing up only now. Also, we don't really require that the
standards writing process takes place on one particular
wiki---rather we felt it was ok if people do stuff on their own site
(or consolidate what's already there) and the submit it for
community review and approval.
To the extent that you are talking about general technical standards
rather than Wikimedia Foundation site standards, and you would like
to ensure that wiki engine implementors are included, I would like
to make the case that a new organization like WikiSym may be a
better place than a WMF site. (More on that if you are in fact
talking about technical standards.)
In any case, I invite everyone to look at the WikiSym site. WikiSym
2006 will take place in Denmark in August and will be co-located
with ACM Hypertext 2006 and sponsored by ACM SIGWEB. CfP will be out
real soon now :-)
Dirk
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At 07.01.2006, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>Hoi,
>
>On Meta the request for a Wikistandards wiki has been revived. The
>request was voiced at a conference of language standards in Berlin (Dec
>12-13, 2005). A significant number of people from the language standards
>community have indicated on Meta that they are interested to actively
>support this effort. See:
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects#Wikistandards