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December 29: New Community Building Tool in 2018: Wiki!

Laura December 29th, 2017

I am excited to announce an exciting new feature coming your way in early 2018. Yay!

How many of you have long dreamed of better storage spaces for important information about our community? Or a more collaborative tool to support and build on existing content and knowledge?

From our mock chat library and listener written topic guides to our threads on community best practices and norms, our community has created a large wealth of shared knowledge. Our collective brain is very smart and has figured a lot out!

Much of this shared knowledge lives in our forums, however a forum is intended to be community building tool, not a place to house and collaborate on communal knowledge and wisdom. In order to better support our efforts moving forward, we are excited to announce a new home for this collective wisdom! We are developing a 7 Cups wiki!

A wiki is a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users. One of the most well known wikis is called https://www.wikipedia.org/. Check it out!

We are still in the beginning stages of figuring out how the wiki will be structured, who will have editing abilities and how we will quality control the content. Each sub-community will have the ability to manage its own wiki section, along with project groups and teams. Like all new initiatives, we will need your help, feedback and support in learning how to best integrate this new tool into our community.

We anticipate 2 phases to the release of the new wiki tool:

1. Migration phase - moving lots of existing content over to the wiki

2. Building on the wiki content and encourage the creation of new wiki content

-----> If you would like to be part of this early migration team, please sign up here. We will provide details in the upcoming weeks.

Thank you! Please share any quesitons or comments here!


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ASilentObserver December 29th, 2017

@Laura sounds interesting Laura. Count me in.

Erato December 29th, 2017

OMG this is so exciting and so interesting!

blossombreathe December 29th, 2017

@Laura

This sounds interesting! I look forward to seeing how it turns out ^-^

Pat December 29th, 2017

@Laura I am really excited to see this unfold! I think it will benefit 7 Cups and the community greatly.

tranquilDay23 December 29th, 2017

This is awesome news! Looking forward to seeing how this wiki project develops and grows! :D

Emily619 December 29th, 2017

Yay, this is so awesome! I've signed up to help laugh

Keola December 29th, 2017

This is exciting times for sure 😊

philosophicalShip9444 December 29th, 2017

@Laura awesome idea.

Abdallah2017 December 29th, 2017

i am hoping better
I have goals to be acheived
But i h ave some fears
God bless all of you

CoinFountain December 29th, 2017

@Laura

I'm kinda fearing that random users with ill intent will use it to spread lies and slander vulnerable groups in ways that look more factual than the forum's comments if it doesn't have someone we know will filter hate out to check all the submissions for edits before they get posted. It does sound like a good idea as long as randoms can't destroy the verified info with non-facts and it sounds like it would possibly have better search feature than what already exists here.