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%3E "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%3E "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