On 9/28/09 12:53 PM, Sage Ross wrote: > As Kat Walsh alluded to on ... Facebook?!?... free/libre real-time > services are more important than a lot of Wikimedians think (because > we've spent so long pushing back against "merely" social uses of our > wikis?). In the grand scheme of the things we care about, development > in that area may be a more critical immediate need than continued work > on MediaWiki.
The social side is quite important here too... social interaction is probably one of the key areas we really need to improve on for Wikipedia/Wikimedia. No matter what else we improve technically I think we all are aware that there are serious problems with how people interact in our community, and that's one of the major stumbling blocks for new users. > Wikipedia has had enough success that it's bought some time in terms > of establishing the ability (and right) of people to control and use > educational material how they want. There's still a lot to do, but > the free culture approach is starting to pick up momentum. For > so-called social networking services, it's still an uphill battle. Yep... what I do find encouraging is that many of the big social-networking services are picking up on the idea that easy interoperability is a win for everyone a lot quicker than, say, the IM wars of the 2000s or the email wars of the late 80s/early 90s. (Remember when CompuServer and AOL users couldn't email each other? Hah!) But that's something that could disappear quickly as long as it's a world where there's only a small number of big players... -- brion _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
