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Re: name and about

Posted by Patrick Dinnen on Nov 25, 2005; 11:00pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/name-and-about-tp26p33.html

I went to make a couple of tweaks, but both the wiki FrontPage and About
pages are 'immutable'. Am I missing something?

Patrick

Michael Lenczner wrote:

> hey,
>
> 1) why is the mailing list called "CivicAccess-discuss"?  It's no big
> deal - but if we're talking about keeping this for ever and ever it
> would be much nicer just to have something shorter - something like
> [hidden email].  or am i just crazy?
>
> 2) I mucked around the "about" page.
>
> Before it said:
>
> "This wiki aims to build a culture of finding, accessing and sharing
> free civic data because:
> *yadda
> *yadda
> *yadda"
>
> I got rid of the reference to the wiki.  It's important to me that
> what is important is not the wiki.  it is the mailing list.  To start
> off with the wiki is just a pantry to store stuff in that comes up on
> the mailing list.  We are not trying to create a wikipedia of
> civicinfo in canada.  That is relatively simple to do and doesn't
> actually encourage people to take these matters into their own hands.
> We are trying to get people fired up to do stuff in their local
> corners of canada.  Create a vibrant community of people interested in
> this stuff.
>
> So i replaced it with:
>
> "We are starting Citizens for Open Access to Civic Data out of a
> believe that open civic information is a necessary part of being an
> engaged citizen. We want to encourage more civic information to be
> open and all levels of government and civil service to use new online
> technologies to allow citizens to more easily access that public
> information.
>
> The role of this website is to play a supporting function to the COACI
> mailing list in creating a community of people across Canada who share
> these values and want to work in different ways to increase both civic
> information and easy access to that information.
>
> We're trying to encourage a culture of finding, accessing and sharing
> free civic data because:
> *yadda
> *yadda
> *yadda"
>
> That probably needs some editing - but it takes the focus off of the
> wiki and puts it on to the goal of creating a community of practice
> across canada.
>
> i'll keep working. . .
>
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