And how! or +1 I agree that wikis are lousy for discussion. They seem to work well for online encyclopedias but I wouldn't want to have to use one for planning the encyclopedia.
Lori Aure On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Lee Passey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, March 14, 2013 8:47 am, Lars Aronsson wrote: > > > Before discussing a new tool, what are we trying to achieve? > > Anyone can install the Mediawiki software, with or without > > some extensions, and try new ideas on a small scale, but > > what are those ideas that you want to try? > > I continue to be bewildered about why any kind of Wiki software is > desirable at this point. Wikis are great tools for documentation and > exposition, but not so great for discussion and consensus. Beware the > hammer/nail syndrome: "When your only tool is a hammer, every problem > looks like a nail." > > > What else is needed, and what role does OpenLibrary > > play? When we know this, I think we can find the > > right tool for the task. > > +10! > > Right now, it appears to me that Open Book Catalog is lacking a vision > and a visionary. Even the platitude "one web page for every book" is so > broad as to be essentially meaningless. That is what we already have, so > what's missing? The data may be incomplete, it may be unreliable, it may > be unreusable for legal reasons, it may be unreusable for technical > reasons, and it may not lead to any actual content, but hey, there /is/ > one web page for every book! > > A wiki is a great way to expose our vision to the world, and to help the > rest of the world to profit from that vision, but it's a lousy way to > develop the vision in the first place. A contentious (and archived) > mailing list is a much better tool for that. When a vision is in place > /then/ we can decide how to surface it. > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] >
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