On Nov 2, 2006, at 12:47 PM, woodelf wrote:
Not to be
argumentative, but you sound exactly like someone who's
never
really participated in a wiki-centric community.
If you tried it (and correct me if you have), you might find you
like it.
Well I like email-lists ( other than send.me.spam :) ) since I
don't have to navigate thru a web site. How soon do you expect the
wiki will have 'Pee Cee' stuff on it, my guess is 15 minutes or
a sex ad posted.
Yep. It's rare for a community survive a mailing list -> wiki
transition. Things that start out as wikis seem to do ok, but they
tend to attract a slightly different crowd...those who think a web
browser is "how you access the Internet". ;)
-Dave
And I think that if those wanting classiccmp to "go wiki" would try some classic
computer searches
at
wikipedia.org (assuming they haven't already done so), they'd find that
there's already a
tremendous amount of technical and historical information there with more easily added by
anyone
who desires to. And, of course, new topics can be created if some system you have
expertise on
isn't represented.
Of course, I might be misunderstanding their request since I'm not familiar with wiki
sites being
used as substitutes for email groups. Perhaps there's some great advantage of which
I'm not
aware. However, since the wiki topic has apparently been discussed here before at length
and
didn't meet with approval, I'll go with those previous conclusions.
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