David Hrbáč wrote: > Hi, > It would be nice if we can get ISSN for wiki.centos.org. Any plans? I > know assigning ISSN for blogs is being held now. If we have ISSN it > might help to get more people to contribute. Just the hint. I don't think that it would work, as there are no "serial issues" on a wiki by which periodicals can be identified: | The same criteria for determining if a serial is eligible for an ISSN | apply to electronic and print publications: an intention to continue | publishing indefinitely and being issued in designated parts. In the | case of electronic serials – especially those available online, such as | on the Internet – the most significant criterion is that the publication | must be divided into parts or issues which carry unique, numerical | designations by which the individual issues may be identified, checked | in, etc. Electronic serials that are issued as individual articles meet | this criterion as long as the articles carry a unique designation. Thus, | a database issued quarterly on CD-ROM and carrying quarterly date | designations would be eligible for an ISSN while the same database as an | online service which was being continually and seamlessly updated would | not be eligible. And I think a Wiki would fall into the "database" category there. Now if we export the articles into a blog ... Ralph -- Ralph Angenendt......ra at br-online.de | .."Text processing has made it possible Bayerischer Rundfunk...80300 München | ....to right-justify any idea, even one Programmbereich.Bayern 3, Jugend und | .which cannot be justified on any other Multimedia.........Tl:089.5900.16023 | ..........grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20060907/52b91139/attachment-0002.sig>