Hey Karl, That's a fair comment - especially since 'open source' is often used exclusively to refer to software. I've changed to 'Shareable and Libre', which is as you say consistent with the rest of the site.
In terms of UI, most of the varieties of page (like work:, source:, genre:, language:, and so on) are forms. So when I add a work, I type < http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:sample> into my browser and then just fill out the eight or so entries in the form. All pages also have tags, which replicate the data I've already entered into the form as metadata that the wiki can respond to. So if the work I've added is in Spanish, I'll add the 'work' and 'spanish' tags to the page. Then on the language:spanish page, the work will automatically show up under the list of Spanish works. That's about all there is to it, I think! If you'd like to take a look at what the form looks like, you can head over to < http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:sample> and click 'Create page'. Cheers, Chris *Chris Sakkas **Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/> and the Living Libre blog and Twitter feed <https://twitter.com/#%21/living_libre>.* On 2 May 2012 19:46, Karl Fogel <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris Sakkas <[email protected]> writes: > >For the last two years or so I've been cataloguing libre and shareable > >content that I come across on my wiki, the FOSsil Bank > >(http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/) > > Chris, I don't have a good response to the question you actually asked > (sorry), and instead have a request. Lest the request sound ungrateful, > let me preface it by saying that this is an amazing resource you've put > together and I hope it can be maintained -- huge kudos to you. > > But, I was initially misled by the tag line at the top: > > "FOSsil Bank -- A Catalogue of Open Source Works" > > Works under -NC or -ND conditions aren't open source, by definition. > Might it make sense to replace "Open Source" with "Shareable" or with > some other word that better represents the range FOSsil Bank > encompasses? You're already careful to make the freedom/unfreedom > distinction in various places on the site and among the licenses. > > By the way, do you have some special input UI for adding new works? I'm > curious about the mechanics of entering and maintaining such a huge > list. > > Best, > -Karl > > >It currently contains almost 500 shareable works, of which almost 300 > >are libre (my definition of shareable work is basically: 'under CC > >BY-NC-ND or a more liberal licence, or in the public domain' and my > >definition of libre is basically: 'under an open knowledge, open > >source, free culture or free software licence, or in the public > >domain'). I might be biased, but I think it's a great little resource. > > > >But I'm also not sure what to do with it. I'm basically the only > >person who contributes to it, and it's gotten to the size where I've > >added all the libre content that I (so far) know or care about it. > >What I'm wondering is whether you have any ideas of where we could > >take it from here: how to raise its profile, how to build up a > >community around it, and so on. > > > >I think one of the first steps would be to set up a mailing list for > >people who are interested in finding more libre and shareable works. I > >would like the mailing list to use FLOSS, but I can't host it myself. > >Is there any cloud-based FLOSS mailing list service I could use? > > > >Thanks in advance for your feedback, folks, > > > >Chris > > > >Chris Sakkas > >Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki and the Living Libre blog and Twitter > >feed. > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Discuss mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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