(urth) Wiki?

[Matthew King]

On Jun 20, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Daniel D Jones wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 June 2007 08:56, Mo Holkar / UKG wrote:
>>
>> I'm able to host and administer such a wiki myself, although I won't
>> be able to do much in the way of populating it with material. If
>> there are people who are keen and ready to get uploading Wolfeiana,
>> then we could get started right away: I don't know what the critical
>> mass of stuff would be for it to start being useful, but not a huge
>> threshold I shouldn't think.
>
> As near as I can tell, this is a project in search of a leader.  If  
> someone
> takes the initiative to get things configured and going, then there  
> are a
> number of interested people who would likely take advantage of it.   
> As to
> whether there's enough people to create a critical mass and create  
> something
> useful or not is an open question.  I don't think anyone will know  
> until and
> unless someone is willing to get things going.
>

Let's pretend for the sake of discussion that we already have  
MediaWiki installed, and now we're deciding how to configure it.

1)  Should the wiki be editable by anyone?  Should we reserve editing  
to list members only?

A halfway option would be to restrict a set of core pages to list  
members only to prevent vandalism, but to allow the unwashed masses  
to create and edit pages at the periphery.  This would provide for  
reading journals or the like.

2)  What kind of structure, if any, should the wiki start with?

http://lostpedia.com provides a decent example of a full-fledged  
MediaWiki site.  I like that they reserve wild speculation about  
episodes or characters to "theories" pages.

3) Who wants to be a moderator?