What about hosting our own wiki instance. Each project would have a main page that would be stable and be used as the main. The project could have sub pages for secondary temporal or physically different locations. Be link to similar project by other groups or the like. Each page would contain a map widget of the time and place it focused on. In addition to general information similar to a regular wiki page. At the bottom would contain a list of references along with a short description.
I love this idea, and we’ve talked about this, but haven’t fully taken this step, as there are also good reasons for staying. I’m leaning on @Minh_Nguyen for guidance about when it might make sense to have our own. I believe he’s able to speak to the benefits of staying on the OSMF wiki.
Do we need our own separate wiki for this? So far the OSM community has tolerated us putting all kinds of stuff in the OSM Wiki, as long as it’s in subpages of “OpenHistoricalMap/” to avoid confusion. The OSM Wiki already supports embedding OHM on any page.
The wiki’s citation templates are full of random bugs. For example, {{cite journal}} refuses to link to the journal article. The wiki has some very old copies of these templates. We need to port over newer versions from either Wikipedia (more featureful but less internationalized) or Wikimedia Commons (less featureful but more multilingual-ready).
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