On 14/11/07 2:53 AM, "Christopher Fahey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I also think this is a great idea. Wasn't there already an IA Wiki? > Seems to be dead now. > http://www.iawiki.org/ Comatose, not dead - the server blew up. I'm relocating it to a new service, and taking the opportunity to examine migrating to an updated platform. There have been huge advances in wiki software in the 7 years the IAwiki lived. > Seeing as I never used it, either, there must have been something > wrong with it. What was it? Too little promotion? Not enough > participation? Bad IA? As I recall it was loaded up with content at > the beginning and rarely updated. It started with only a dozen or so pages, and before the server blew up it had over a thousand pages. It was a quiet success, content wise. My diagnosis for the low uptake by the IA community: 1. introduced at a time when few knew what a wiki was, 2. lots of IAs had a hard time reconciling the idea of something so unstructured with the idea of IA, 3. lots of IA discussion and thought leadership was poured into a new-fangled and blossoming technology called "blogging" > One problem is that our community might not be big enough to reliably > and continually generate rich content. Wikipedia's top 500 > contributors write 50% of their content, but only comprise a tiny > fraction of their audience. In our world, that means we'll need to > rely on only maybe a dozen people to maintain a healthy Wiki. The IA > Wiki model, then, would need to attract participation at a much > higher level, I think. The participation model is similar to what happens with mailing lists - lots of lurkers, a few active participants. However, for all the active participants on this mailing list, you can't assume they'll update a wiki .. only maybe 10% of those will. > The concept, again, seems great. Maybe it really just needs the > rubric of an org like IxDA to work. It also needs a cultural context: non-ownership of ideas (vs. the egoism of blogging), and documenting (vs discussion eg. mailing list participation). e. ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
