OK, thanks for replying. It is time to proceed.
- If I understand well, Ken has already agreed to transfer the hosting to Niall. I assume this process will run separately. If any problem we will hear.
- Afaics we need first to define some tasks and a small group to handout the primary responsibility for those tasks. I propose:
- Rewriting and cleanup of the wiki, bring up to date. I am willing to play my part in this.
- Clean up users, assign acces rights (implement Marks idea), make some procedures. But before cleanup: check for experienced users if the are wiki-registered and maybe willing to participate. Ask offline.
- Define requirements for participation of the wiki
- PR and I'd almost say recruitment
- Review modifications and rework feedback.
- The group who decides on how to proceed does not need to be large but it would be nice to have some additional hands who know, or are willing to learn, how to maintain this wiki.
- Being able to handle the wiki is more important than specific technical knowledge of CMX or other tools.
- Principally we should focus on user assistance and secondary focus on necessary technical background info.
- Reviews are important to have the necessary structural feedback. Without criticism there is no improvement. I would make a distinction between user reviews (is it understandable) and peer reviews (technical).
- As we all can see, it is the known suspects who replied. I think we should aim at a slow expansion of that group but we have to start somewhere.
- I don't think it is worthwhile to have discussions of this editorial board (big words, other terms welcome ) online and would like to decide what needs te be in the forum (what do we need user feedback for) and what might be better in a mail circle and publish after the discussion is done.
So all said I see: David, Niall, Paul, Mark and myself.
That means all other users (or almost all other users) can be removed. That means we need to publish clearly how membership of the wiki board is handled and above all what is expected: having an account comes with some responsibility and obligation. And that means that we need to have clear what we can ask from wiki members, give out small tasks , small editable chunks so the overview remains and it is easy to define what a successful completion is.
if you (David, Niall, Paul, Mark) largely agree with the above, please send me a mail - or a PM with your mailaddress - and your comment on the above. That makes it possible to communicate away from the forum and come back here with actions and results. Another possibility is - when preferred - to have a secured thread. We'll see how it goes. Things will take some time.
Having said the above I think readers who do use CMX intensively and know what it can do, even if you don't see yourself as a technical skilled person, should think about what they can do i.s.o. thinking how to dive. It is great software which deserves a great wiki. And that must be a community effort.