Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Affordable/Low Income options: Crowd source article needed- A US Cohousing Wiki?

[Catya Belfer (catya]

And really, y'all can send me things to post on cohousing.org.  Or become
volunteer site editors and post content.  please. :)

     - cat

Catya Belfer   -  www.catya.org
Technical Director   -   www.cohousing.org
Cohousing in MA - www.mosaic-commons.org

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 3:29 PM, John Sechrest <sechrest [at] gmail.com> wrote:

>
> managing spam on a wiki is possible, when you remove the option of posting
> anonymously and require everyone to be known and then remove violators of
> policy.
>
> Google sites is one simplistic way to make this work.
>
> Google drive with links can also be made to work
> On Oct 25, 2015 7:12 AM, "Fred H Olson" <fholson [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Back on Sep 24, 2015 Pare Gerou wrote:
> >
> > >The topic of affordable cohousing is of interest to a great many of us,
> > and
> > >we have rich resources in David Mandel, Chris ScotHanson, Sharon
> Villines,
> > >and so many others.  I wish there was a US Cohousing Wiki where people
> > >could crowd source an article on the subject authored by those with
> > >knowledge (complete with links to communities that have attempted or
> > >succeeded using the particular vehicle for affordability would make the
> > >article even more useful). I would think a Wiki would be very
> > cohousing(y).
> > >In addition to the great information on Land Trusts, I have taken the
> > >liberty of reprinting an email from Chris ScotHanson I thought organized
> > >the basic list of affordability options -- I know it can take time to
> dig
> > >into the archives, and emails on this subject are scattered. Has the
> topic
> > >of a cohousing wiki ever been discussed?
> > >Pare Gerou
> >
> > The replies quickly got off on the issue of spam on wiki's etc.
> > I never got around to replying about a cohousing wiki...
> >
> > I tried to start a cohousing wiki in 2007 and in part due to the spam
> > / maintenance problem but more due to minmal use I closed it.
> >
> > Here is a post about it's demise:
> > http://lists.cohousing.org/pipermail/cohousing-l/msg33737.html
> > See some details below from http://l.cohousing.org/c-l-hist.htm
> >
> > The idea of crowd sourced, editing our collective knowledge is great.
> > Wikipedia has proved this. But it takes some dedicated people doing
> > the editing work.  The earlier cohousing wiki failed but maybe another
> > attempt could succeed in motivating enough people to do enough to be
> > useful.  I suggest doing it by strating an article at the Intentional
> > Communities Wiki http://wiki.ic.org/
> >
> > [ I am unsure how well this wiki is working and maintained.  I saw
> > a few anommalies when I browsed it.  Anyone more familiar with it? ]
> >
> > Some details about defunct Cohousing Wiki:
> >
> > In March 2007 the Cohousing Wiki was started to provide a
> > collaboratively developed and maintained reference web pages about
> > cohousing. One main goal was to develop an archive of example
> > documents such as Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CCRs). The
> > wiki could also have summaries and pointers to notable threads in
> > Cohousing-L. To date the Cohousing Wiki has not gotten much
> > development effort. Volunteers are encouraged to check out this site.
> > About the same time the Intentional Communities Wiki (
> > http://wiki.ic.org/ ) has been developed that has significant
> > cohousing topics.  Both use the open source Mediawiki software that is
> > used by the popular http://en.wikipedia.org/ general collaborative
> > online encyclopedia.
> >
> > 2012:
> > The Cohousing Wiki was shut down in 2011 tho the link
> > http://wiki.cohousing.org/ now is to a page about details and wiki
> > archives.  The IC Wiki is still around.
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > --
> > I support Bernie Sanders for President
> > Fred H. Olson  Minneapolis,MN 55411  USA        (near north Mpls)
> >      Email:        fholson at cohousing.org      612-588-9532
> > My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org         My org:
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