Greetings,
Today I was populating the Digital Classicist wiki (http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Main_Page) with a few things and as I went along I wondered about points that could use some group discussion.
Is there any reason to keep "Resources" as a main entry on the left sidebar? The term is vague and the content of the page it points to seems to be aged, formless, and disjointed.
Any chance we could get the statistics page to focus not on aggregate page views but on something more useful for authors and editors, something like top pages by week, month, and year? What about other metrics? That would let us see what's hot and what's (perhaps unduly) not, and learn something about the users of the wiki.
http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Special:Statistics
The Events entry links to a page off the wiki, one that cannot be edited (as far as I can see):
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html
Any chance we could migrate this to a Google calendar (or similar) that can be populated directly by editors? The number of DH activities relevant to classicists seems to be mushrooming, and who wants to be the person to catalog them all? Maybe we could even embed this proposed Digitalclassicist calendar on the front page of the wiki. One of the great benefits of going this route is that at a click we can all subscribe to and sync that calendar with our own.
Finally, fellow editors, please populate the wiki. Numerous projects that I've seen discussed ephemerally--by tweet and email--over the last several months disappear into digital oblivion and prompt retweets and re-emails. The wiki is there to help us perpetually announce and recommend projects and tools to everyone in the world, especially to those too harried to subscribe to a listserv or browse its archives. And if you're not an editor please sign up to become one. This wiki has great potential, but has a long way to go. (Wouldn't it be amazing, for example, to see Babeu's fantastic 2010 report on classical tools ["Rome wasn't digitized in a day"] fully integrated?)
Best wishes,
jk
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Joel Kalvesmaki
Editor in Byzantine Studies
Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd St. NW
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 339-6435
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