Open Library Community Wiki

This community wiki is designed for collaboration and discussion among Open Library users.

Introduction

On March 1, 2013 [[/people/kcoyle|Karen]] wrote in an email:

[[/people/brewster|Brewster]] has encouraged me to encourage the idea of creating a working community around OL -- folks who can participate in making changes and fostering sharing. That's all the guidance I have, so I'm assuming that we have to do the heavy lifting to make it happen. Can we work together on a proposal?

Communicating

It was suggested that ideas be constructed and collected on this wiki, but that discussion is easier on the mailing lists.

Mailing lists

There are three mailing lists:

ol-discuss for general questions and discussion; sign up to ol-discuss or read/search the archives
ol-tech for technical questions and discussion; sign up to ol-tech or read/search the archives
ol-lib for discussions about "librarianship"; sign up to ol-lib (there are no archives for ol-lib)

This wiki

List of current pages:

To create a new page:
1. type the address (e.g. http://openlibrary.org/community/important-topic) in your browser's address bar
2. see if the page exists (if it is not in the above list, it doesn't exist yet, but do so just to see what happens)
3. if it doesn't exist yet, append ?m=edit to the address (so that it becomes http://openlibrary.org/community/important-topic?m=edit) and go.

The new page will automatically appear in the above list when you save it.

IRC

Some people sometimes or regularly [[/community/irc|log in to the #openlibrary channel]] on Freenode to quickly discuss problems or ideas that are more or less related to Open Library.

History

Created March 18, 2013
10 revisions

November 18, 2020	Edited by Drini	Reverted Spam
August 28, 2020	Edited by	Edited without comment.
March 22, 2013	Edited by Ben Companjen	updated instructions to create new pages.
March 22, 2013	Edited by Lori Ayre	Edited without comment.
March 18, 2013	Created by Anand Chitipothu	Added community page.