> I wouldn't want to have to use one for planning the encyclopedia. That's exactly what Wikipedians do. It actually works brilliantly.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre <[email protected]>wrote: > 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] >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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] > > -- -Tom Johnson
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