On 3/23/11 1:16 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > > You could allow each biblio page to decide who its audience is. If > there is ever a conflict between a lay and a specialist audience, you > can have two sets of annotations. I'd like to see this happen in > practice before optimizing against it.
I think that is workable if the two sides don't step on each other's toes too much. I am also coming around to the view that we should just try it and see what happens. >> * It doesn't look like a MediaWiki. Since the MW software is so > > This is easy to fix -- people who like the current acawiki look can > use their own skin. Well, my concern is for newcomers who by definition don't have a skin configured. What I want this this reaction: <browse to http://acawiki.org/whatever> "Hey! This is MediaWiki! I know how to use this!" <edit stuff> But now I think the following reaction is more likely: <browse to http://acawiki.org/whatever> "Hmmm, what's this?" <browse browse> <leave> These small barriers to entry matter. My basic argument is that leveraging familiarity by making it look like something people have seen before is more important than branding. Reid -- I work for IBM, and sending this e-mail might be part of my job. However, I speak for myself only, not the company. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
