How do you build a wiki community?

[chriswaterguy]

Appropedia gets 2500 visitors per day. But only a couple of dozen editors are active on the wiki in a given week. How do we engage more

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[pfctdayelise]

Congratulations, you are... a community manager! :)

some reading that I like:
* Art of Community by Jono Bacon from Ubuntu (I'm almost finished reading the actual book, but you can download the pdf)
* FeverBee, a guy called Richard Millington.

It's not all relevant, but you can take useful bits away often enough.

[pfctdayelise]

heh, ok, that icon was not what I thought it was. I meant to use this one.

either way, you get the idea... reading... :)

[chriswaterguy]

Thanks. The second icon is less scary. ;-)

I must get back to Bacon's book - I started but have been caught up with tech & content stuff. (Continual choices about how to spend time...) Will check FeverBee.

"The Open Source Way"

[iquaid]

A friend pointed me at your call for help here, perhaps you've moved on with more success so far. I wanted to call your attention to a new book we just released under a free content license:

http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki

This is a handbook designed to help people create and nurture open communities. It presents common principles, explains how to implement them, and shows examples. It is concise (about 30 pages printed as a book) and focused on how to get things done, referencing other, longer works for proof points.

Ironically, it is written on a wiki and, as a new content community, we'll be slowly building contributors. If you see anything you like there, or have contributions from your experience, let us know.

Re: "The Open Source Way"

[iquaid]

Hmm, better try these links instead until I get that fixed:

http://www.TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki

http://www.TheOpenSourceWay.org/book

Re: "The Open Source Way"

[chriswaterguy]

Awesome - I'll definitely check those out!