In the last month we are doing a spring cleaning for all of our tools.
We have quite a few applications and systems that are not in use, and we have been making efforts to shut them down – if they are relevant to you, you probably have been notified about it.
When it comes to the wiki, things are a bit more complicated.
the Wiki software is really old and does not support all of our needs
the use of the wiki is sporadic, most pages are very old and not up-to-date.
Yes, I was thinking of migrating all of these to the Open Data Handbook and to open a community guide section there. Should be simple. What do you think?
Github.io website like the Open Data Handbook are easily editable but they don’t work like wikis, admins have to approve the requests
(BTW Mor, don’t we have an open pull request to handle? )
And to the point - I think that we can make more community member admin on the handbook if needed (or at least give it to ambassadors and group orginisers)
Yeah shutting down the wiki and migrating the resources into Open Data Handbook community guide sounds good idea. Are we going to merge all kinds of resources into the handbook section or only the selected one.
I agree with this proposition of efficiency. the forum Discourse is awesome for dialogue. The “automatic” lists subscribers transfer to reciproque forum will be very appreciated. It’s very difficult to follow redundance.
@stefankasberger and I can migrate things off the open science part of the
wiki. There’s a reasonable quantity of content but not overwhelming amounts.
If the plan is to migrate static content to the forum, are there examples
of where this has worked well? It’s feature-rich so I can see that given
the editing patterns of the wiki, if people were given sufficient rights
over shared posts it could work well but I haven’t seen others using it.
For open science, we could also migrate everything back to WordPress…
Hi @jcmolloy!
For your question - here is a bit about a wiki post -
If there is any static data, I would recommend to move it to the WordPress rather than the forum.
Let me or @danfowler know if you have more questions!
I think resources available in the presentation section and Local Group starting tutorial of the wiki are also important. A year ago, we planned to make wiki a home of Involvement Showcase. Where newly involved people can inspire themselves by looking others involvement and works. But everything went in vain because of the lack of time.
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