CantonWiki:MeetupAgenda/2009-11-10
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George's notes from our first meeting
You are invited to the first meetup for CantonWiki, which will be on Tuesday, November 10 from 7:00pm-9:00pm at the Canton Public Library in Group Study Room A. This is a wiki agenda, feel free to edit it like you would any other wiki page.
[edit] Agenda
- Introductions
- George talks a little bit about CantonWiki
- Content to focus on
- Geographic locations to focus on
- Getting the word out to groups that are traditionally receptive to wikis:
- Librarians
- Historical societies
- Computer people
- Platform choices
- MediaWiki
- MediaWiki specific "cool stuff" in Special:Specialpages
- Expandability is limited only by developer apathy
- WikiSpot
- Bunch of reusable templates at http://citywiki.wikispot.org/
- reusable templates are mostly effective in Mediawiki too, as evidenced by Main Page
- Active community of CityWiki advocates
- Nicer usability than default MediaWiki installation
- Avoids MediaWiki's "is it a category or an article" quantum pages by not having categories (can they be disabled in MediaWiki?)
- Bunch of reusable templates at http://citywiki.wikispot.org/
- Sycamore
- Wiki platform that powers WikiSpot
- Provides a lot of the usability of WikiSpot but allows us to modify as needed
- MediaWiki
[edit] RSVP
Please RSVP if you can make it by adding your name to the list at the bottom (click the "[edit]" link on the right, you don't need to have an account). This is important because the room we currently have booked fits 10-15 people, if we get a bigger turnout we'll get a bigger room.
