KnitWiki talk:Projects

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Sorry, Sarah, I won't step in your project until you greenlight it.

Question though: are you honestly intending to be a gatekeeper/owner for projects on this wiki, or will it indeed become a public, community-created wiki as advertised? ("If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly...") While there are potential issues around turning away enthusiastic volunteers by telling them to stop with no visible reason why a project is listed if it's not active, I'm more concerned about your burnout level once this whole thing gets rolling.

There are, perhaps, better places to give some direction for folks who'd like to jump in and don't have enough clues to find, say, like a template for transcribing vintage patterns or a clue-bat pointer to a preferred example. Love, and with so much appreciation for you having set up this delightful thing.

So, for a holding place until later, when you're ready to go:

1. Idiot Mittens! Where one mitten is joined by the i-cord that runs up one sleeve and down the other to the other mitten. The original source of the term, thanks to and coined by Saint Elizabeth Zimmermann. C'mon, I had these as a kid, didn't you?
2. weave a rug!
3. Create a Flying Spaghetti Monster toy
4. Make sure boy dolls are anatomically correct *ahem*

No worries Ruth! I just didn't want anyone else to add to it just yet :-) Sarah Bradberry

Thanks, Sarah! I'm sure there will be more than 101 when it gets going! best, Ruth

Sorry I didn't cover the other things you mentioned earilier. The comment on the edit pages "If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly..." refers to the fact that anyone can edit a page that has been put in the wiki. It doesn't just refer to me. Mostly I fix typos, add missing categories and keep the help files up to date. Very minor stuff, except for the help files.

Anyone can start a new project, but I just put a hold on that one since it's listed as a future project and I haven't written any guidelines for it yet. If you'd like to start the project up on it's own page & write some guidelines for it please do, that would be great!

That's a good point about the transcription guidelines. I'll be back working on the wiki full time in about a week (I've been working on the rest of knitting-and.com for the past couple of weeks) and I'll be writing guidelines for transcribing the old patterns, yarn store listings, a policy on the justification of images and adding a few new things to the help files then.

Also, now that we have so many users I will be making other people sysops and bureaucrats as well so there will be a team of people in charge of things & not just me. I honestly didn't expect so many people to sign up so quickly! Sarah Bradberry 21:25, 12 April 2007 (PDT)

Sarah, you're fabulous. And I'm interested: I'll create a new page for I-cord ideation; please link to it from the projects page as makes sense to you. I'm going to start by sandboxing at my personal page, and take a project page live when I have some guidelines / format clues to put in place.

I'd also love to see everyone who has partial projects of this sort (the whole cc KnitWiki) connecting with one another, so perhaps we don't all have to reinvent the wheel. There are quite a number of partial, or regional, indexes of resources and groups; no one has it all (see me carefully not using the word "yet") -- and it seems like one very good early step might be to point to "who else is out there" -- from Wikipedia and the Wikia KnitWiki and Emily Way's compendium that had its roots in knitting discussion lists back in the days of the Fido-Net over at http://woolworks.org/ to academic archives such as the the hm, it looks commercial, but someone's spent the time to plug 669 Spinning guilds and over 1750 yarn shops in over at http://mapmuse.com - thanks to Violet for pointing that out in a comment on my LiveJournal where I was musing about Things earlier today. Where's a good place here for a linkfest?

Those types of links belong in their relevant articles under "Other websites of Interest" (or similar). For example, in the yarn store listings pages you could add a link to the shop listing at woolworks.org, in an article about spinning guilds you could add a link to the site at mapmuse. Sarah Bradberry 20:43, 14 April 2007 (PDT)