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body: value: This community wiki is designed for collaboration and discussion among Open Library users. 

## Introduction
On March 1, 2013 [[/people/kcoyle|Karen]] wrote in an [email][1]:

> [[/people/brewster|Brewster]] has encouraged me to encourage the idea of creating a working community around OL -- folks who can participate in making changes and fostering sharing. That's all the guidance I have, so I'm assuming that we have to do the heavy lifting to make it happen. Can we work together on a proposal?



## Communicating

It was suggested that ideas be constructed and collected on this wiki, but that discussion is easier on the mailing lists.

### Mailing lists
There are three mailing lists:

 * **ol-discuss** for general questions and discussion; [sign up to ol-discuss][2] or [read/search the archives][3]
 * **ol-tech** for technical questions and discussion; [sign up to ol-tech][4] or [read/search the archives][5]
 * **ol-lib** for discussions about "librarianship"; [sign up to ol-lib][6] (there are no archives for ol-lib)

### This wiki

List of current pages:

{{PageList("/community")}}

To create a new page:
 1. type the address (e.g. http://openlibrary.org/community/important-topic) in your browser's address bar
 2. see if the page exists (if it is not in the above list, it doesn't exist yet, but do so just to see what happens)
 3. if it doesn't exist yet, append `?m=edit` to the address (so that it becomes http://openlibrary.org/community/important-topic?m=edit) and go. 

The new page will automatically appear in the above list when you save it.

### IRC
Some people sometimes or regularly [[/community/irc|log in to the #openlibrary channel]] on [Freenode](http://freenode.net) to quickly discuss problems or ideas that are more or less related to Open Library.


  [1]: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-tech%40archive.org/msg00843.html
  [2]: http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss
  [3]: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss%40archive.org/
  [4]: http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech
  [5]: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-tech%40archive.org/
  [6]: http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-lib
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