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This wiki is for connecting the W3C communities (Web developers, implementers, people who make the W3C specifications). W3C has a formal track for making standards specifications. The specs answer a lot of questions, but not all of them. The wiki is used by many communities such as the Open Web Platform and the Semantic Web. You might want to contribute to W3C work.

Pages here have no formal status but may have WikiConsensus. Questions & answers here may be misleading, or just plain wrong. Or, they may be useful. You are welcome to add, fix, develop and rearrange topics.

2015-01-15: Due to an increase in spam, W3C has restricted editing of this wiki to those who have a W3C account with Member access. You must log in with your account to edit the wiki.

Groups

Please feel free to add active W3C groups here:

AC
AB
Board
CSSWG
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SocialCG
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Closed groups

Many closed groups have plenty of reference material that may be useful for future efforts:

Social Web Working Group produced Webmention, Micropub, and Activity Streams. See Social Web WG Specifications for more.
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Tools

Main article: Tools

W3C Web Tools
- Validators: HTML, Links, CSS, RSS/Atom feeds
- HTML differences visualizer
Chat: IRC, Slack
- Bots: RRSAgent, Zakim
GitHub

Application Foundations

See Application Foundations.

CSS

See CSS.

Open Web Platform

You might be interested in learning HTML or have a reference about HTML elements.
The W3C Quality Assurance was a dedicated W3C activity from 2001 to 2005. It included work on the Markup validator, but also touched upon topics such as tracking issues and URI testing among others. W3C maintains a liaison with IETF to coordinate on technologies and specification related to the Open Web Platform.

Specifications

See current specs. Work being done to improve specs in general:

SpecProd - an effort to restyle spec content design.
Spec Advancement - proposals for accelerating spec advancement.

Evolution

An attempt to round up discussions about extensibility, versioning, naming, identifiers, registries, standards process.

Process 2018 diffs Process2018

Process 2019 diffs Process2019

Encouraging Participation

Please help us identify barriers to participation in W3C activities, discussions, teams, etc. More importantly, contribute ideas on how to get around those barriers! Open to all! Click the title and join in!

Editing

Editing Taskforce

Semantic Web

GoodURIs, OpenFormats, HCLSIG BioRDF Subgroup/Tasks/URI Best Practices
Semantic Web FAQs, SemanticWebTools, SPARQL, Category:Grddl, OwlAuthoringTools
- Emerging topics: LinkedData, RdfAndSql, EmbeddingRDFinHTML, RDFa
- RESTful thoughts: Semantic Annotations for RESTful Services, Web of Data Objects, SemanticInbox, foaf+ssl
Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group
Semantic Bioinformatics
Semantic Web Job Mart - looking for work in the field? Looking for employees?

Security and Privacy

Security, starting around March 2006, for discussion on W3C Security-related specifications and enhancements to XML-Dsig.
Using Web technologies implies traceability, logs, identification, therefore Privacy is becoming a growing concern from the community and need to be addressed at the technical level.

Identity

IdentityBrowser, a wiki page for notes relating to the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop.
IdentityCharter, a wiki page for the draft charter which may include Crypto API and Identity API.