Wiki Wednesday - Ann Arbor

The first Wednesday of every month (usually). Come on over to chat about wikis, show off a project or something you've found, or just listen in.

The bullet-point overview from SocialText (http://SocialText.net/wikiwed):

Wiki Wednesdays are held (mostly) the first Wednesday of each month
People get together to chat, learn about wikis, find jobs, talk deals and generally cavort
You can RSVP, or swing by if you like
Wiki Wednesday is (usually) the first Wednesday of the month

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Time/Location: 2PM at Cafe Ambrosia -- probably downstairs, where there's more seating.

Participants

Jennifer, and
Devon, both of the UM Business School Library
Andrew Miller, of Richmond Wiki
Matt Burton and Garin Fons, who are working on cataloging the Local Food scene
Edward Vielmetti
BrianKerr
MattH

Facebook Connect

Facebook Connect Plugin - I'm not sure this is ready for primetime yet, or how users would react/comprehend. Unless there are strong opt-in/out features I'm not sure I want to set this up yet Andrew M.

Ideas for Dave

Information about Category:Gardening: supplies, plants, tips, classes, community plots, shares...
Local food (contact User:Mrgarin for more information)
UM events, buildings, resources, history that is open and relevant to the public. The Arb, Matthaei, Library technology, that sort of thing. From the eyes of (generally) non-University folks.
A Who's responsible page for city issues. Pages for longtime city staff.
When templates from RichmondWiki are online, point to those as usability.
"What's your reaction to Arborwiki?" Where are we going wrong? What's going right?

Calendars

Calendar project: http://delicious.com/a2cal - a calendar aggregation tool; compare with calagator

Richmond Wiki

A distinguished visitor from Richmond VA's Richmondwiki was in attendance and spoke on the topic of semantic wiki and forms handling. Richmondwiki has a great form system that gives a text entry field for each part of a template. Much more usable than the wiki markup system. Matt hopes to copy the templates over to ArborWiki

Google Analytics

A discussion of conversion tracking on forms and a suggestion on how to get conversion funnels for multipart stuff; does it require hacking the core or can it be done in add-ons or the theme?