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I do wonder why the activity of our list has dropped so much this year?
Maybe Twitter ?
Erik Zachte
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I do wonder why the activity of our list has dropped so much this year?
-- Piotr Konieczny
"The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in theory."
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Maybe Twitter is the reason there are less posts recently. Twitter and mailing lists may be competing channels. Erik
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Erik Zachte wrote:
Maybe Twitter ?
Maybe Twitter what? :)
-- Piotr Konieczny
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Twitter might be competing with blogging or with Facebook. However, I wonder if it is competing with mailing list.
I think the mailing lists need some motivational power to drive the interest and the discussions.
bilal
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Erik Zachte erikzachte@infodisiac.comwrote:
Maybe Twitter is the reason there are less posts recently. Twitter and mailing lists may be competing channels. Erik
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Erik Zachte wrote:
Maybe Twitter ?
Maybe Twitter what? :)
-- Piotr Konieczny
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Bilal Abdul Kader wrote:
Twitter might be competing with blogging or with Facebook. However, I wonder if it is competing with mailing list.
Indeed. Isn't Twitter mainly one-two-many outlet? Is anybody out there doing wiki-related research and annoucing it/discussing it via Twitter?
Facebooks is more plausible, but due to restriction on who can join it, I don't think it works. I don't even think there is a serious/active Wikipedian group at Fbook (I joined some few months ago pro forma, and wasn't terribly impressed), and I am pretty sure there is, again, no Wikipedia research being discussed there (barring researchers occasional random comments, directed more to friends than to other researchers).
Blogs, on the other hand, are much more of a serious competition (nudge, Erik :)
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