Barnraising

From Water Wiki

On Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, we held a "barnraising" to get the water wiki ready for public launch.

attendees

RSVP'ing were

Alicia Guzman

Jeff Hughes

Mary Tiger

Leslie Kleczek

Will Lambe

Bill Holman

Richard Whisnant

Todd Nicolet

Shadi Eskaf

Andrew Westbrook

agenda

1. Introductions
2. Background of water wiki
   1. The idea of an environmental wiki in general (Richard)
   2. The water study (Richard)
   3. Fit with SOG IT plans - open source and LAMP (Todd)
3. Discuss Richard's Wardrobe
4. Objectives for tutorial and barnraising (Richard)
5. Tutorial (Richard, Todd, Jeff)
   1. Account creation
   2. Basic page structure: user, user talk, main page
   3. Navigation
      1. left sidebar options
      2. linking
      3. new pages
   4. Editing pages
      1. FCKEditor vs wikitext
      2. toolbar in FCKEditor
      3. compare syntax in wikitext
   5. history: comparing
   6. email and other monitoring options
   7. category pages
   8. Structure and philosophy of water wiki
      1. synoptic rationality versus evolutionary incrementalism
      2. guidelines for points of view
      3. discussion
6. Barnraising