I'm surprised there hasn't been more of a response to this, but for what
it's worth here's my penn'orth on this.
Yes I reckon it's a great idea for us all to pool knowledge in some form.
Especially for those of us in the UK, there might be a bit of an overload of
information from the States and not enough of our local stuff.
The only aspect that troubles me is - does a wiki actually give you an
organised enough result? I don't know, I'm just asking the daft questions if
nobody else will.
The Access Now site looks fine at the moment, with a few well-defined
subject areas. I'm just wondering what it will look like after a couple of
dozen of us have got in there and done our own bits of editing. There's one
way to find out - do the experiment. Or, does anyone already have experience
of contributing to a wiki or starting one?
Certainly not a crap idea, and I'm sure it would be something a lot of us
could use.
Vince.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damon" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 4:45 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Access UK Wiki?
Hi,
I've always felt that we could all put together a really good collaborative website of info that could be easily updatable as knowledge grows. Knowledge is power and all that. A really useful knowledge base to accompany this mailing list with a UK focus.
Just for a bit of fun I've setup a wiki to see what people think. Could this be useful? Obviously there's no info on it at the moment and I've just taken a stab at the main site sub-sections but it only took about 15 minutes to setup and if it's a crap idea then it's a crap idea. Evolving. Organic.
I called it Access Now.
The address is http://accessnow.pbwiki.com/
It's pretty quick and accessible but has more clutter on the page than I'd like so maybe it's not the best wiki service anyway.
If you want to add to it just to play around, the password is 'blunkett'
If you want to edit a page hit alt-e then enter on the page you want to change. It'll take you to a page where all the content is in one big edit field and you can edit it.
If you want, for instance, to add a new page about Skype from the software page then hit alt-e which makes it editable. Then put skype in square brackets, with a bit of info next to it, and press save. You've now generated a link to a page called Skype. Click that link and start adding content to it in the way described earlier and save it - alt-s from within the edit field.
Just a random idea and I've setup the site to start a discussion rather than to actually create a site.
I did do a bit of a Google to see if a similar UK access wiki existed but I couldn't find one.
I feel a collaborative project could be really empowering and useful though - both practically and maybe for campaigning purposes too. Don't care if it turns out to be this site or not ... I reckon there's probably better services and software out there for this purpose and I don't particularly want any ownership, hassle or glory. Examples sometimes work better than words is all.
Have a lovely bank holiday. Interested to know what you think or perhaps there's enough out there already.
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