[jats-list] a new JATS wiki

[Kevin Hawkins <kevin.s.hawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to everyone at this year's JATS-Con: great papers, great 
organizing, and great audience questions.  I would be joining you 
tonight for the "after party" if I weren't sitting at the airport on my 
way home.

We talked a bit about providing ways for members of the community to 
share JATS customizations, Schematron rules, tools, and more without 
leaving the burden of maintaining such a resource on the folks at the 
NLM.  One idea was to do this as a wiki in order to avoid needing to 
have a webmaster who responds to people's requests to add resources, 
which lowers the barrier to participation (people just make a quick 
edit), and which allows the collection of resources to grow organically 
instead of in a top-down fashion.

If others are interested, I could set up a MediaWiki 1.13.1 instance 
hosted at the University of Michigan.  Here's an example of another such 
site:

http://webservices.itcs.umich.edu/mediawiki/ml2sig/

The new JATS wiki could be readable by everyone and editable only by 
those who create a guest login at the University of Michigan.

Some advantages to this wiki setup at U-M:

a) By making people create a guest user account, we outsource the 
problem of filtering spambots to U-M's login creation process instead of 
appointing someone to look after the site for malicious account creation 
and posting of gibberish on pages.  (If you doubt that this happens, ask 
me about why the TEI wiki changed to requiring approval of new users by 
one of the moderator.)

b) By hosting at U-M rather than on someone's personal website, we 
ensure an institutional home for the content.  While I may not be at U-M 
forever, the institution, through http://www.lib.umich.edu/mpach , will 
be committed to JATS for the foreseeable future.

Some disadvantages:

c) It's hosted by the university's central IT services, so I am 
dependent on them to upgrade MediaWiki and add extensions depending on 
their schedule and desires.

d) There is no timetable that I'm aware of for implementation of 
Shibboleth or OpenID, so people will need to create a guest user account 
to use the system.  It's easy but a hassle for everyone to have yet one 
more account.

e) The URL is kind of ugly.  However, I can probably get 
jatswiki.publishing.umich.edu or register something new (jatswiki.org?) 
instead.

f) It's MediaWiki.  There's no WYSIWYG editor.  We all know that people 
don't like to write in markup.

--Kevin