indieweb-style-guide
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This style guide is a set of recommendations when using indieweb terminology.
Use this page to discuss writing style, disambiguation of jargon and phrases and to ask questions about terminology in efforts to remain more consistent with how others are writing about indieweb ideas and projects.
The Indie Web
- "the Indie Web" as a noun
- The "IndieWebCamp" event name is one word.
- "IndieWeb" is a proper noun. It refers to the indieweb movement, which encompasses websites such as indieweb.org, events like IndieWebCamp, and various technologies including microformats.
- "indieweb" is an adjective meaning "of or relating to IndieWeb".
- "indie web" as a generic term describing an independent web [1]
An Indie Website
i.e. a site that is part of the Indie Web.
Webmention
- Webmention the protocol is a proper noun and should be capitalized, but not CamelCase.
- An individual webmention that someone receives is not a proper noun.
- You can receive multiple webmentions, but Webmention can not be pluralized
Brainstorming Section
indieweb.tld
As a community we strive to use IndieWeb and IndieWebCamp for events and organizational sites such as the indieweb.org wiki.
IndieWeb Events
We welcome you to use the term indie web in a top level domain if you set up a website for a community event. Likewise for homebrew website clubs (hwc).
- Examples
- https://2019.indieweb.org/ - IndieWeb Event Registration
- https://indiewebcamp.nl/ - IndieWebCamps in the Netherlands
- https://hwclondon.co.uk/ - Homebrew Website Club meetups in London
IndieWeb Services
It is best to name a service by the problem it solves rather than using IndieWeb in your top level domain.
If you build a service to support the community we welcome the use of the word indie. see indie for numerous examples from pop culture on the history of the use of the word indie in other spaces.
- Examples
- Telegraph- A service for sending webmentions.
- indiepayme- a decentralized ledger for tracking payments
- Aperture- a microsub social reader
- IndieSeek
- {insert here}
See Also
- To-do: There's enough about indie* naming of things on this page and on 2018/NYC/Organizers#projects_using_indieweb.tld_domains and indie itself that it's worth collecting all that in the indie naming page, and just leaving a summary behind here on style-guide.
- IndieWeb isn't often seen as a verb, but it's been seen creatively in the wild
- https://twitter.com/serdar/status/1504682044634279938, which uses it in the sense of backing up one's content and hosting it from one's own website
"A real shame for what it’s now become, I’ve stopped uploading a while ago and stopped paying when they doubled the price - I wasn’t getting any value out of it. I need to #indieweb my photos though" @serdar March 18, 2022
- https://twitter.com/MichaelWDelaney/status/1504976136190713858
"Anything’s a CMS if you indieweb it hard enough!
This is super cool." @MichaelWDelaney March 18, 2022 - The original verbification may have been the word "indiewebify" which stems from using the website https://indiewebify.me as a tool on one's website.
"yeah it should be the starting point for everybody who wants to indiewebify their website"
Jeena Paradies in IndieWeb chat on 2014-02-01 02:24
- https://twitter.com/serdar/status/1504682044634279938, which uses it in the sense of backing up one's content and hosting it from one's own website
- to do: figure out a split between the page about how to use IndieWeb specific terms e.g. on the wiki and elsewhere when talking about IndieWeb, and personal site-specific style guides (like whether or not you have a colophon or use footnotes and how do you present them)