[OWW-SC] Fwd: Fwd: Transfer Private to Public?

[Jason Kelly]

More on private wikis.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steven J. Koch <sjkoch at unm.edu>
Date: Feb 10, 2007 12:30 PM
Subject: RE: [OWW-SC] Fwd: Transfer Private to Public?
To: Jason Kelly <jasonk at mit.edu>, austin at csail.mit.edu


Thanks everyone for the suggestions.  I think we will use the category
suggestion and then after the transfer delete the tags from the pages.  My
intention is to just get the pages in a reasonable form and then transfer
them over one time only.  I have some young people sketching them out and I
think it will be too much to sketch them out from scratch on the real OWW.
And yes, that scares me a little too, as I am still new to it, but I do see
that it would be fine and at the most possibly instructional and not bad.

One thing that has really surprised me is that almost all of the students
are afraid to write anything on the public wiki for our course (PHYC500).  I
had incorrectly assumed that in the age of myspace people would be all over
it.  Huh.  I guess I need to tie OWW contributions to their grade.

OK, thanks for the advice,

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: jrkelly at gmail.com [mailto:jrkelly at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jason Kelly
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 7:30 AM
To: Steven J. Koch
Subject: Fwd: [OWW-SC] Fwd: Transfer Private to Public?

Hi Steve,

See comments below.

So it looks like it will depend on how you're planning to move the
pages in the end.  Do you expect to move a bunch of pages at once?  Or
will you be moving certain pages at certain times.  If you are going
to do a bulk move then I think a prefix would help('ToGoPublic:'), but
if you are going to do them individually then it probably doesn't
matter so long as you can find what you want to move when the time
comes.  One option to help you do that would be to tag them all with a
category (as Mike Yee suggests below.)

Thanks,
jason

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu>
Date: Feb 7, 2007 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: [OWW-SC] Fwd: Transfer Private to Public?
To: oww-sc <sc at openwetware.org>



    I think the best method depends on how many pages people will want
    to move and how they want to move it. Putting pages to be moved
    under a common prefix isn't necessary for moving as we can easily
    tack on a prefix during the move. But if it helps to recognize
    what should be moved, then that's fine. If it's just going to be
    single pages to be moved by hand, it doesn't matter much at this
    point whatever they do. If the pages are going to be moved once
    and that's it, it'd be much simpler than if pages will be moved
    from private to public, continued to be edited on the private, and
    then later moved again to public. I'm not sure about tagging with
    categories but if that helps them figure out what should or
    shouldn't be moved, then they can go for it. Just that those pages
    after being moved will still have those categories on them and
    won't make sense on the public site. Basically, it really depends
    on how they intend to use it.

    I think for most people, bulk moving of pages from private to
    public is unlikely (other than maybe moving the entire
    wiki). Moving an entire wiki is straightforward and nothing
    special should be done with the private wiki. For moving single
    pages at a time manually, I can think of also nothing that can be
    done now with the page to make it easier to move at a later
    time. Thus, I'd personally go with doing nothing special right now
    unless they have special needs that they forsee having.

> How about making a template like {{togopublic}} that sticks
>
> [[Category:togopublic]] and
>
> <!-- This page will go public soon -->
>
> on the page? It's easier than a namespace IMHO because they can go to the
> aforementioned category to see a list of everything that's due to be
> moved, plus the pages can be put in whatever namespace they want.
>