Hmmm... not going to convince you then :)
If you have seen the progress of wikipedia over the last 2 and a bit
years from unfunded nothing to one of the worlds most valuable
multilingual encyclopaedias based on idiotically simple technology
that could have been built in revolution in a month by a single
developer, and based on the input of hundreds of thousands of
unherdable cats, plus a few freaks, with nothing but an collectively
organised skeleton of an editorial process...
Try deleting a page on wikipedia or defacing it and see how long it
takes to be replaces by all those "cats". Take a look at how many
tiny contributions and corrections are posted every minute by people
with "wives that would kill them" - the best sort :) There is an irc
channel somewhere - which last time i checked was showing around 20
posts (ie modifications and new contributiuons) every minute.
Paid dedicated centrally controlled editorial is not the only way to
produce quality - social filtering and structured openess goes a long
way in defined application areas.
On 18 Oct 2005, at 03:06, Jim Ault wrote:
Of course, who decides what qualifies as good/excellent content..
Expert
level, moderate, beginner, one example, two, five, .. fastest
algorithm,
easiest to write.. how to put pieces together to solve scenarios..
catalog
the exceptions and bugs.. even to build a rudimentary decision tree
for
someone to follow to build an app..
All would be a very large task for several individuals. Add to the
mix that
the most accomplished contributors are advanced because they do
this for a
living which means they have no time for their own documentation of
projects, let alone building a knowledge base.
In our little corner of the programming universe, I think that most
anyone
only has time to skim, collect some valuable tidbits, contribute
answers as
time and mood permit, then go on with our lives.
As they say, "managing programmers is like herding cats", and that
is the
way it should be. I wish you good luck getting support. If I
decided to
follow this path and contribute, my wife would kill me.
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