It seems to me that some of the information we are collecting is more stable while other aspects are more fluid. In the more stable category are things like lists of resources (tools, standards). This is the kind of encyclopedic information that I believe could be well-situated on wikipedia or glottopedia. In the more fluid category are on-going discussions about privacy and ethics, action items or recommendations to funding bodies and scholarly organizations, and announcements of new projects/on-going efforts. This more fluid type of information doesn't seem to belong on wikipedia (and probably not glottopedia either), but I believe it needs a home, and a visible one at that. That home could be this wiki (perhaps exported to different software and physically housed at a different site), or it could be part of something else (LINGUISTList? Other suggestions?). I think that the home for the fluid information needs to have a hook, or a reason for people to frequent it. I think a multi-authored blog on topics related to cyberinfrastructure for linguistics would be ideal for that function, and am interested in feedback on this idea.

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