OASIS Wiki Info

["John Evdemon" <jevdemon@microsoft.com>]

Here is the post referred to in today's conf call about OASIS making wikis available to the TCs.

I'll get one set up for us and post a message to the list when its available.  

 

What should we use it for?   Wait for the availability and we can hash out some ideas on the list.

 

Note the OASIS ground rules below (emphasis mine).   Let us know if you have any concerns. 

 

John

 

-----Original Message-----

From: James Bryce Clark [mailto:jamie.clark@oasis-open.org]

Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:31 PM

To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org

Subject: [chairs] Wikis

A number of OASIS TCs have asked for Wiki capability. Wikis have proven to be a useful "scratch space'" tool in communities like ours. The most stable, capable commonly-used Wiki engine that our tech staff have identified is MoinMoin, which several OASIS-related communities use. We plan to make Wiki pages available to any TC that requests it,. Our tech staff has installed a Wiki server and is running a beta test with the XRI and XDI TCs.

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Expected ground rules: (a) global public readable, (b) write access to TC members, (c) the IPR Policy applies, and (d) archiving of intermediate drafts is intermittent (as with all Wikis), so any permanent artifacts should be moved to the regular TC document repository.

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As the beta testing TCs do their work, you may find it interesting to watch. See: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xri

and http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xdi

For more on the MoinMoin engine specifically

see: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/FrontPage

For more on WIkis generally, here's one of many possible resources:

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWikiWorks

Any other TCs that are interested in being part of the beta test, particularly those with robust activity and a strong likelihood to use the resource, should let us know. (Directly, please, not by cc to this broad

list.) Our plan is to be done with the testing phase, and integrate a Wiki link into the TC page menus, by late July.

This new, optional facility is only one of several significant improvements we're planning to OASIS document handling capabilities in the next few months. Among other things, with the assistance of our Technical Advisory Board, we shortly will be posting a revised plan for naming and location of all TC work product. We expect that this will make uploading, and finding, our work much easier.

Regards JBC

~ James Bryce Clark

~ Director, Standards Development, OASIS

~ jamie.clark@oasis-open.org