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For those that don't know: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY">What's a wiki?</a> | For those that don't know: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY">What's a wiki?</a> | ||
And this is one example on how it's been used in the past by this group: '''ADAPT!!!!!!''' http://wiki.couchsurfing.org/en/Hamburg_Krakow_invasion | |||
Following the repeated intention from the admin of this website to delete the content of the wiki that is not travelguide-like. Someone finally opened a couchsurfing wiki for all other content. It is there: couchwiki.org | Following the repeated intention from the admin of this website to delete the content of the wiki that is not travelguide-like. Someone finally opened a couchsurfing wiki for all other content. It is there: <a href="http://couchwiki.org">couchwiki.org</a> | ||
To see the details of the wiki battle between the admins and the users, visit the <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=3727">wiki group</a>. In particular those threads: | To see the details of the wiki battle between the admins and the users, visit the <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=3727">wiki group</a>. In particular those threads: | ||
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<a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=3727&post=3981801">October: Confirmation that the wiki will be turned into a travelguide and all other content will be deleted</a> | <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=3727&post=3981801">October: Confirmation that the wiki will be turned into a travelguide and all other content will be deleted</a> | ||
Now two possibility: You want to share information about Hamburg, tips, places to visit, or you want to share community information, or anything else that does not fall in the first possibility: | |||
In the second case, you should NOT use the CS wiki, cause your content would be deleted in time. You should use <a href="http://couchwiki.org">couchwiki.org</a>, that is meant to have all sort of content. | |||
In the first case, my advice is still that you do NOT use the CS travelguide wiki if it ever sees the light of day. I got good reasons: It has a very restrictive licence that makes its content unusable, in particular by the contributors themselves. And most important: There is a participative travelguide that already exists and that is very successful and that already has a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/">flexible licence</a>. It is called <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page">wikitravel</a>. They are both based on the same software so they are identical to use. It is counterproductive to write the Bible twice. | |||
Trust the geek on such matters. | Trust the geek on such matters. | ||
Revision as of 17:28, 14 October 2009
Keep the html tags, thanks
General announcement.
For those that don't know: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY">What's a wiki?</a> And this is one example on how it's been used in the past by this group: ADAPT!!!!!! http://wiki.couchsurfing.org/en/Hamburg_Krakow_invasion
Following the repeated intention from the admin of this website to delete the content of the wiki that is not travelguide-like. Someone finally opened a couchsurfing wiki for all other content. It is there: <a href="http://couchwiki.org">couchwiki.org</a>
To see the details of the wiki battle between the admins and the users, visit the <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=3727">wiki group</a>. In particular those threads: <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=3727&post=2566865">March 2009: original annoucement</a>. <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=3727&post=2837321">April: Edits will be restricted to a small team</a> <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=3727&post=2755486">4 months waiting for an answer from the coordinator</a> <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=3727&post=3981801">October: Confirmation that the wiki will be turned into a travelguide and all other content will be deleted</a>
Now two possibility: You want to share information about Hamburg, tips, places to visit, or you want to share community information, or anything else that does not fall in the first possibility:
In the second case, you should NOT use the CS wiki, cause your content would be deleted in time. You should use <a href="http://couchwiki.org">couchwiki.org</a>, that is meant to have all sort of content.
In the first case, my advice is still that you do NOT use the CS travelguide wiki if it ever sees the light of day. I got good reasons: It has a very restrictive licence that makes its content unusable, in particular by the contributors themselves. And most important: There is a participative travelguide that already exists and that is very successful and that already has a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/">flexible licence</a>. It is called <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page">wikitravel</a>. They are both based on the same software so they are identical to use. It is counterproductive to write the Bible twice.
Trust the geek on such matters.