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

[John Sechrest (sechrest]

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
>
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