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:
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ol-discuss for general questions and discussion; sign up to ol-discuss or read/search the archives
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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:
- /community/books
- /community/guidelines
- /community/ideas
- /community/introduce-yourself
- /community/projects
- /community/sandbox
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. |