discuss: the good the bad and the ugly
Subject:
Re: the good the bad and the ugly
From:
Martin WHEELER ####@####.####
Date:
20 Nov 2003 23:50:22 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0311202339400.25173-100000@caxton.startext.demon.co.uk>
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Randy Kramer wrote:
> PS: It will probably make sense to start with a page for one particular HOWTO
> -- anybody want to make a recommendation or volunteer one of theirs as a
> "guinea pig"?
Ironically, I spent half-an-hour earlier this week *deleting* the only
HOWTO that's had its own dedicated wiki for the last three years.
Why?
No-one used it.
(Apart from me, the co-author, and four other contributors over the
whole three-year period.)
Even though the standard 'text' version mentioned the existence of the
wiki, and gave a hyperlink to its location.
Guess the subject was just too boring.
I shall therefore follow this trial with the greatest of interest.
But from personal experience, the moral appears to be:
don't over-estimate the interest of the general public in raising the
energy to lift a finger to press the 'edit this page' link.
I have often toyed with the idea of making such wikis *restricted*
access sites -- as a means of 'adding' value to the act of updating
them.
Just my thoughts.
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