[imc-uk-emergency] Static documents on Mir -- better on the Wiki?

[ionnek]

At 10:19 30/04/03, Chris Croome wrote:
>Hi
>
>One thing that struck me last night was that the static documents
>[1] might be better off _not_ on the new Mir site but on the Wiki,

not sure I understand: do you mean not having a mission statement, 
contacts, ed guidelines, about us, support us etc linked from the 
uk.indymedia.org startpage?

I think we should have links to these docs from the startpage, because 
people are used to look for "metainfo" on websites.

We could link to wiki pages instead of linking to websites. Agree that it 
would be easier to update. on the other hand, everybody could then alter 
the documents, wether they are familiar with the indy process or not, in 
good will or with destructive intentions. We could end up with a mission 
statement that is constantly being changed without a discussion in the 
network, or somebody might add their local mediagroup to the imc uk 
contacts. Could be an interesting experiment...

but I'd be inclined to try and stop it when people like ram start using the 
twiki...

Maybe I'm too stuck in "collective process". I'd hope that at some point, 
all the imc uk groups will "own" these basic documents, because they've 
discussed them, worked on them and agreed on them. Things like mission 
statement and ed guidelines won't need to be updated very often.

We could still insert a link to the twiki in the webpages. The twiki at the 
moment is a lot of "work in progress", while the websites represent 
something that has been agreed on.
People could work on draft documents on the twiki whenever they feel it's 
necessary, then  others could change and alter them, until everybody is 
happy and a proposal would go to the process list to replace the old doc by 
the draft. Then maybe some more discussion, or instant agreement, whatever.

I'm a bit hesitant to publicise the twiki widely - it's beauty is that it's 
a completely open tool,  but I think it should only be used by people who 
have the serious intention to use it for indymedia. Maybe my view is too 
closed? On the other hand, it would be good to refer to the twiki, 
definitely when we launch the new site so that our "public" can see more of 
our process.

Saying that, I'd love to have a "thematic topic" called "doing indymedia" 
or so on mir, maybe even now a subsection on the old page, to introduce 
"users" to the new page.

best,
ionnek





>this has some pro's and con's:
>
>-- Pro, easy access for updating by non-techy people (I think that
>    this is the best reason for having them on the Wiki).




>-- Con, they won't have the same look and style as the main
>    http://uk.indymedia.org/ site.
>
>Hmm, there are probably some other considerations, but I can't think
>of them right now...
>
>Chris
>
>[1] http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkMirWebDocs
>
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