We need a system to categorize our data like in your links Carol, and I agree that the current state of the wiki is pretty bad. But if you look at projects like Wiki-Commons, or free-reading, a wiki *can* be a lot better organized. We just don't have enough dedicated and informed people to fix the wiki. Information doesn't spread well yet.
On Jan 19, 2008 6:04 PM, Carol Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seth, sorry for sending this once to you and then to the list. On > reflection I felt it should go to the list as well. > > Truly the wiki is NOT the best way to organize content such as the > activities page. > > Yes, the countries will be the arbiters of taste as to what is shipped on > each of their xo's but what about the next step? > > Here are examples of completely different way to organize this type of > content (not very beautiful but quite a lot more functional than just a > list): > > http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix/cms-matrix?func=search > > or > > http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/search > > I think we need a search by age/grade level, subject matter, localization, > countries using, minimum build requirement, maturity/bugginess, tag (where > an app could have multiple tags that were optional and possibly pejorative!) > > > > The current activity page is pretty hard to use -- in the computer > science/database world I think we could term it a "heap". > > Regards, > > Carol > > > > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > >
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