On 29/05/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Further, that crap is exactly what draws people in. Back before anybody had heard of Wikipedia, I was persuading my clients to use wikis as intranets. My number one trick for getting involvement was putting in mistakes: typos, formatting errors, and obvious omissions of information. Nobody would touch a finished-looking page. But give them something they could fix *right now* and they were hooked.
I'm *sure* we used to have a page recommending that, somewhere. Always be sure to leave something unfinished...
(There is one word which appears in about a third of the new articles I write. I can't spell it. It is always a source of delight to me just how fast someone will come by and fix it...)