IndieMark

IndieMark is a set of metrics for measuring the indieweb-ness of a site.

IndieMark helps us as a community measure our progress both individually and collectively.

idea capture

I'm using this wiki page capturing the general idea of IndieMark first and then will flesh this out into one or more straw proposals for discussion. - Tantek

Ideas:

• areas and then levels in each area

• based on my Diso 2.0 thinking which contains multiple dimensions of independence / self-reliance / robustness: http://tantek.com/2010/034/t2/diso-2-personal-domains-shortener-hatom-push-relmeauth

• possible areas:
  • identity
  • authentication
  • posting your own content
  • syndicating your own content (to other sites)
  • realtime-ness
  • syndicating in comments/tags/etc.
  • ...

Motivations:

• IndieMark helps us as a community measure our progress both individually and collectively.
• one of the reasons I want to do this as a "mark" with areas/levels is that IMHO "SWAT0" was too hard and unsustainable - that is - I believe some implementations claimed to pass SWAT0, but that perhaps only Statusnet is still around?
  • it also prioritized the wrong things (IMHO) from an *indieweb* perspective (though it made sense from the FSW framing at the time perspective).
  • e.g. cliqset(.com) is gone - and I think it was used to pass SWAT0
  • I don't even know if we have 3 implementations that can be used to pass SWAT0 any more.

Challenges:

• one of the challenges of any "*-mark" system is to figure out abstract levels that one technology can satisfy today and another could replace tomorrow. any ranking/mark system that depends on a specific technology tends to either look silly after a while, or unfortunately cause people to waste time implementing obsolete.

FAQ

• Q: Why not just a "rank"?
  • A: Rank implies a serial order. Because there are several areas being measured, and you can be ahead or behind in any particular area, I thought "mark" was better, similar to the "ringmark" effort at W3C.