[Commons-sense] Re: Commons-sense Wiki - please contribute

13 July 2005



Commons-sense Wiki: The "African Commons Encyclopedia"





Dear Commons-sense Conference 2005 participant,



We here at Commons-sense Project headquarters in Johannesburg, now
experiencing the chill mornings and evenings of yet another highveld South
African winter, hope you are well.



Thank you again for your participation in the May conference - if you go to
http://www.commons-sense.org you'll remember just how exciting it was!



As promised at the conference, we have now set up a "wiki" through which we
can all collaborate online to develop a comprehensive picture of where the
"African digital commons" is at. The wiki, called "The African Commons
Encyclopedia" and using a free and open source web platform known as
TikiWiki, can be found at: http://www.commons-sense.org/TikiWiki



Please go to the site and register in the top left corner, choosing a
username and password. Once you have registered you will immediately receive
an e-mail that guides you to entering the site for the first time. All of
this will only take you a couple minutes, and then you are in!



Once in, you can edit the wiki at any point by clicking on the "edit" bar at
the top left of the text, or you can provide comments/suggestions by
clicking on the "comment" bar at the top right of the text. In edit mode, if
you want to do any fancy formatting and don't know the syntax, just click on
"Wiki quick help" at the top right of the text for tips.



And that's it. Simple. Fun.



Our plan is to publish an offline version of this wiki at the end of August,
so that gives you all about one month to contribute. Many of you are working
on projects mentioned in the wiki; so now is the time to add more
information, correct any inaccuracies, brag about latest achievements, etc.
Also, now is the time to add information about any projects, activities and
other interesting African commons phenomena not yet mentioned in the wiki.



Enjoy!



If you have any questions, complaints, praise, fears, desires..please e-mail
us...

Heather Ford: hf...@gm...

Chris Armstrong: arm...@pd...





______________________________
Chris Armstrong
Associate, LINK Centre
Wits University, Johannesburg
Tel: +27-11-717-3548 OR +27-83-590-8744
Fax: +27-11-717-3910
arm...@pd...
http://link.wits.ac.za