On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Judson Dunn wrote: > >> I can't sell my luddite co-workers on the idea of a blog, or a >> wiki, but this is more obviously approachable. For more normal >> web users, there are obviously a lot of advanced uses as well. > > Google Wave combines many concepts, such as mail discussion > threads, Twitter-like short message discussions, instant > messaging, wiki-like edit history and an animated playback. > The idea of showing diffs since the user last viewed the same > wave, is very similar to Flagged revisions. > > My guess is that this mix is too advanced for most users and will > be a hard sell, almost like an automobile with a joystick (like an > airplane) instead of a steering wheel.
Definitely all of that is too advanced, but I don't think people have to use all of that. You can very easily think of it as email if you aren't that tech savvy, but with a few new features that maybe you don't understand that well. If there is a big voting button in an email people will understand how that works, even if they don't understand how the wave extension api works. I also don't really think this is immediately relevant to wikipedia, but it's interesting getting other wikipedians views on the topic. I think we have a lot of experience in collaborative software. :) Judson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
