John Posada wrote:
> Personaly, I find no purpose for a wiki in the contenxt of this list
> other than to fragment this list.
> 
> What would the wiki give us that we we are mising? Unless someone can
> give me a current shortcoming that the wiki can fill, I won't be
> participating in it.


I was about to respond by agreeing with Dori and saying, "Let's play with one!" 
but I think John has a point. If the wiki replaces some of the e-mail threads, 
then it will fragment the list. Some people will comment on things via the 
wiki, and some will do it via e-mail. Most people may never know what's going 
on in the other format unless they make it a point to seek out what's been 
happening (I can't say that I have the time to be that ambitious).

Can or should the e-mail based list be replaced with a wiki rather than having 
a wiki in addition to the list? Would there be any advantages or disadvantages 
to it?

What happens if more than one person is trying to add to a wiki page at the 
same time? Is it like when two people have the same file open--either the last 
one to save wins and wipes out what the other person did or the last one to 
save can't save because the file changed since it was opened?

I'm not that familiar with wikis, blogs, and the like, so please forgive me if 
my questions and ideas seem naïve.

Donnaw
 
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