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Our recommendations on how to make the “multi-engine wiki-hive” work

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It’s a bit like language. You talk and by talking you shape the grammar books. It’s not the other way around. Therefore the grammar-books are recommendations, pretty useful ones actually for communication.

So is a policy.

This is not our policy but this are our recommendations on how to make the multi-engine wiki-hive work. You can change them. It’s a wiki.


We try to establish community ties within the different wiki communities within and across wiki-engines. We like a hive-community.

A central wiki for the hive to organize it on, inform about the HiveNoPolicy?, discuss about where the recommendations are still unclear, link to first examples, etc is essential.

The project has the spirit of no leader. The community owns and controls it. MattisManzel, who came up with it and pays the 15 EUR per month for the server for the first time until the financial autonomy is established, has in no way anything more to decide than anybody else who contributes to the project. A wiki is owned by these who use it. So is a wiki-hive.

Peaceful cooexistance is the goal. Those who write or program for wiki are all pulling on one string: free and open content. We are too clever, too wise to waste our energy on fighting each other. We’re far too busy in building a network.

The hive is open to technical innovation and experimentation. People knowing about technical stuff have a voice here. People from different wiki-engines help each other to make the whole thing work. Competition may be fun sometimes, sportsmanship desirable. We do it the wiki way.

The main thing is being open for new wikis. Somebody comes along thinking to make a wiki for xyz. The person is free to make an xyz-wiki on all engines, try them out and decide for one. The wiki just about to be created gets better, when people can choose. Many engines is diversity and that’s an advantage. We’re all pulling on one string anyhow.

Decisive responsible developers are given all necessary access to install the different software on this hive.

The hive is in no concurrence to existing similar projects like wikicities. The hive and other hives should get connected where can be, wiki-nodes and all the stuff to come. Again: One string. What to do different as for now is that we offer multiple engines and the wiki-on-a-click-‘n-try-it-out-on-different-engines-if-you-feel-like.

When offering wiki with a click you naturally have many many dead wikis. This is not a problem. Just in case we have to cancel wikis: We’ll maybe meet for a hive-ting (collab-editor session on gobby) anyhow every fortnight or every week, right? We should have something like oddwiki: status merged from all our engines and in front of each wiki on that list there are two little squares you can activate. You choose keep or delete. You also can decide about a part of the list only. Then you click submit. When we meet on our hive-ting we have the results. The wikis that have enough delete clicks and no keep click will pretty likely be deleted. Anyhow this only concerns removing dead garbage, so we will pretty likely get along fine for quite a while without such a decision help. But it could be of help later, maybe.

MattisManzel, 2006-08-23: Sometimes I’m really wondering what I’m up to?