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[OM] A proposal for the OM-Pedia project

Subject: [OM] A proposal for the OM-Pedia project
From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:28:32 -0800
Hi Zuikoholics - it does look like there are (still) quite a bit of interest in contributing toward a "definitive OM book." My original idea was really a book, but looking at the responses, it is probably too much of an undertaking. That leaves website as the main viable option. Of course a complex website can be turned be dumped on a CD at anytime so that option is open as well.

So how do we manage the website? One model is the website maintainer receives web page submissions from different people and organize them. Depending on the skills of the maintainer and how much time he or she can spend, this should work reasonably well.

Another model is the wiki-wiki model, where ANYONE can modify a website. This has the advantages that any expert can change the content and even reorganize it to whichever way they see fit. This model works well if there are at least some dedicated people who can really set the ball rolling to set up the initial pages (TOC, links etc.) There are also some learning curves on using wiki-wiki, as it is not strictly HTML. The guards against malicious hacking are simply that bad contents can be edited out, and outright trashing of data can be restored from backup.

I can offer some webspace for either of these two options. Personally I would prefer the wiki-wiki approach, but I will leave it up for the people who want to contribute to decide. Regarding copyright etc. I'd think that the copyright of a particular article remains solely that of the writer, and that if CDs are ever offered, they must not be sold for more than $X where X is small, say, $5, plus S&H. [ ImageCraft does own robotic CD burner so burning multiple CDs is no problem ]

So first thing to decide is whether people agree this is a worthwhile project. Second then is to decide whether to go with the traditional web model or the wiki-wiki model. To get an idea of what a wiki-wiki is, look at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki, to see an example running on ImageCraft local server, check out http://www.dragonsgate.net/taichi-pedia

Let me know what you think.

// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> <http://www.dragonsgate.net/mailman/listinfo>
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