Interwiki collaboration month

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Interwiki collaboration month is a proposal originating from the Sustainable Community Action wiki to promote and encourage interwiki collaboration on any aspect of sustainability or sustainable development.

[edit] When?

• June, each year, starting in 2009

Plenty of time to prepare, fits in with green festivals (summer months, northern hemisphere - see note below), might fit in well with one of proposed topics for 2009

[edit] What?

The idea is to collaborate on expanding a common pool knowledge from which everyone can share on one or a few main topics each year

• June 2009 proposal - something like 'Low carbon futures' or 'How can we reduce our carbon footprint' - which might fit in well with the lead up to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP-15 (November 2009)

Here is something similar (connected to the COP) and already running: Eurizons 2008: A Call for Climate Justice --Adia 03:29, 13 November 2008 (EST)

[edit] Why?

• Collaboration is a good thing!
• if a whole range of wiki can be seen to be working together this may be more impressive to potential users, and so used in promotion of individual wiki to wider audiences
• low cost - only commitment is to collaborate on at least one topic on at least one wiki (preferably including at least one different to that which normally contribute to) during the month

[edit] Alternative titles

• Peoples' Sustainability Symposium

[edit] Who?

Original proposal posted on the first 5 wikis, but of course the list can be added to:

Responses: please add your response, or see others on the SCA page

• Sustainable Community Action wiki
• Green wikia
• Greenlivingpedia
• Ekopedia
• Appropedia
• Hitchwiki
• Trashwiki

(not intended to be a northern hemisphere / developed world only thing, but specifically to try and include or be open to majority world / developing world also)

[edit] Potential Tools

[edit] Wiki Nodes

excerpt from

http://wikinodes.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/WikiNodesProject

"The goal is to construct an Inter-Wiki infrastructure capable of supporting the motion of individuals, cliques, and communities over several focused wiki. Several technologies are important to this motion, a small sampling include: WikiNodes, [WikiFeatures]MachineServices, Interwiki maps. There are also social technologies, rather than just wiki/computer technologies, such as [WikiKM]WikiProcess, so that people can quickly get up to speed on a new wiki."

[edit] Wiki Nodes Pages of "Who"

http://sca21.wikia.com/wiki/Sustainable_Community_Action:WikiNode

http://www.appropedia.org/WikiNode

http://p2pfoundation.net/WikiNode