Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Policy Database

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

This issue is typically addressed by "Version Control."

On of the better examples of Version Control is in the MediaWiki platform,
which is used for Wikipedia and the Intentional Communities wiki, etc. Each
edit is preserved and allows the editor to indicate whether or not a change
is a major and to make a comment about the revision.

Here's a link to the Cohousing section of the Intentional Communities wiki:

http://wiki.ic.org/wiki/Cohousing

I first built out this body of content in 2007, drawing heavily (with
permission and attribution) from Rob Sandelin's work. This work has now been
accessed over 17,000 times.

You can look at the revision history with the "History" tab, or by clicking
here:

http://wiki.ic.org/index.php?title=Cohousing&action=history

Until we see more policy documents created within online collaborative
tools, such as MediaWiki or Google Documents (which also has versioning),
we'll probably need to rely on documentation specifically provided by
whomever publishes the document.

Craig

P.S. Here's a link to the Cohousing section of the Intentional Communities
wiki. Its had many v


On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Daniel Lindenberger
<daniel [at] smallboxcms.com>wrote:

>
> Hi Sharon, wonderful question! I'd love to track changes in policies as
> well. There's a field in the database for the year of the policy, and as
> I fill in a bit more information about each community, we'll be able to
> look at the age of the policy both in absolute terms (e.g. "1996") and
> in relative terms (e.g. "3 years after formation").
>
> It'll probably take a bit of evolution before we have a really solid
> format for putting this in - some communities rewrite the entire policy,
> some make amendments, etc. so as we get more policies listed, we'll work
> to put them in a coherent format.
>
> I'm also going to increase the quantity of information about each
> community that I capture, so that if we get enough policies we can do
> things like search by state/province.
>
> Thanks for your interest and great suggestions.
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On 5/7/2010 7:44 AM, Sharon Villines wrote:
> >
> > On May 7, 2010, at 3:35 AM, Daniel Lindenberger wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Just wanted to let you know that the policy database is now in its
> >> final
> >> home: http://windsong.bc.ca/cohousing/policies/main.htm
> >>
> > One question Daniel is what to do with superseded policies. When one
> > community changes their policy, the old one might still be of use to
> > others. I prefer the phrasing and format of a policy of outs that is
> > now 10 years old to any of the 3 following it. The individual
> > languages of the people who happen to be on that team have changed
> > several times.
> >
> > Also it would build an archive to see policy changes over time.
> >
> > Such an interesting and helpful project. Thank you!
> >
> > Sharon
> > ----
> > Sharon Villines
> > "Logic will get you from A to B.  Imagination will take you
> > everywhere."  Albert Einstein
> >
> >
> >
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