EVAC Wiki

A few days ago I got the East Village Arts Collective Wiki running.  A wiki is a website that allows people to edit any page through their browser using a simple markup.  It's way easier than HTML, I swear.  Wikipedia is the most famous wiki, but there are thousands of them large and small.  They are a simple tool that allows many people to collaboratively edit documents with any confusion about which copy of particular document is the most up to date.

I'm hoping that EVAC will benefit from using a wiki to coordinate information.  Wikis are simple enough that you can learn how to use them as you go, and the MoinMoin Wiki software that I installed comes with a comprehensive set of documentation.  The FrontPage on the EVAC wiki has some starting points at the bottom.

The EVAC Wiki is configured so that you must have an account to edit or create pages.  There are no restrictions on creating accounts so if you're involved in EVAC feel free to start using it.  Please be aware however, that in the future EVAC may limit viewing/editing for some or all of the wiki to coop members only.

Accounts should be created with your real name, using capitals and no spaces.  For example: JeremyMcNaughton, or EmmaGoldman.  This will make sense once you explore the wiki a little bit.

EVAC also needs a mailing list.  Wikis are amazingly flexible, but for discussion they pale in comparison to good old traditional mailing lists.  Our old mail server isn't up to the task of handling mailing lists.  I'm almost ready to build our new mail server, I just need to find a block of time long enough to do it.  Hopefully I can get that done within a couple of weeks, but who knows what crazy obstacles I'll run into.

Once I've got all the kinks worked out, I wouldn't mind helping other groups get set up with wikis and mailing lists.  For a long time I was anti-mailing list.  Now I've come to see them in a different light, but that topic will have to wait for another post.