Actually wikis can be quite useful when it comes to aggregating information -- just ask Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia.
The reason why we've decided to solicit comments on the wiki is because it makes it much easier to aggregate them there -- as opposed to sifting through various emails and finding peoples' comments that way. If you'd like to volunteer to be the person to sift through email comments, then we might consider accepting them there as well. As for the "US-based" wiki, it's actually hosted in Japan. As for a "privacy policy," this may very well have been an oversight, but we might consider adopting something similar to Wikimedia's, which can be found at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy. Lastly, if you refuse to license your comments under the GFDL, do you also refuse to contribute to Wikipedia? Best, Elizabeth On 7/23/07, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Fred Benenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Unfortunately we're only soliciting comments on the talk page on the > wiki -- if you are not comfortable using that process then I'm afraid you > can't participate. That's more than unfortunate: it's absolutely incredible. If that holds, then I don't think FC.o wants feedback. Should people be comfortable signing up on a US-based wiki with a blank privacy policy? I'm certainly not. There's no telling who owns the wiki and what they're going to do with the data submitted. What is the point of a list called discuss.freeculture.org if discussion is not welcome here? Wikis are pretty bad locations for discussion and MediaWikis are even worse. Email is the way to go - learn from the work of e-democracy.org and others. Why is feedback on the charter any less valid if sent by email? Must all FC.o supporters have always-on web access? Why is it so difficult for one of the wiki admins or the starter of this thread to simply link this thread in the archives? Absolutely amazed, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Also: statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, workers co-op. Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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