BCRA web site - operation as a wiki
Posted: Fri 11 Sep 2009 09:29
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BCRA web site - operation as a wiki
For a while now I have been considering some changes to the way the BCRA web site is organised, and I had concluded that there were advantages to operating at least parts of it as a wiki. Since the BCA web server now has the facility to run wikis I have asked David Cooke to set up an experimental site.
A BCA wiki is already in operation, covering certain specialised areas of BCA operations and the UK caving forum has a wiki project in place too. Additionally I use wikis at work as part of the management of large EU-wide projects and Im coming round to the idea that for data management within BCRA they are an ideal enabling structure.
Rather than ask and then wait for Council to debate the merits, come to a conclusion and report back to me, I think this is one example where discussion would benefit from taking place in the BCRA discussion forum that I set up for this purpose a while ago. Consequently, I shall assume that, as web site editor, I have ex officio permission to pursue this project but with the proviso that any doubts, suggestions, questions will be raised in this forum.
As I said, I have been considering this for some time. Recent helpful discussions with Trevor Faulkner and Jenny Potts have prompted me into action at this point.
Cc web forum
BCRA web site - operation as a wiki
For a while now I have been considering some changes to the way the BCRA web site is organised, and I had concluded that there were advantages to operating at least parts of it as a wiki. Since the BCA web server now has the facility to run wikis I have asked David Cooke to set up an experimental site.
A BCA wiki is already in operation, covering certain specialised areas of BCA operations and the UK caving forum has a wiki project in place too. Additionally I use wikis at work as part of the management of large EU-wide projects and Im coming round to the idea that for data management within BCRA they are an ideal enabling structure.
Rather than ask and then wait for Council to debate the merits, come to a conclusion and report back to me, I think this is one example where discussion would benefit from taking place in the BCRA discussion forum that I set up for this purpose a while ago. Consequently, I shall assume that, as web site editor, I have ex officio permission to pursue this project but with the proviso that any doubts, suggestions, questions will be raised in this forum.
As I said, I have been considering this for some time. Recent helpful discussions with Trevor Faulkner and Jenny Potts have prompted me into action at this point.