Charles,
That is indeed a good page and perhaps the primary contributors of that wikipage would be interested in this proposal. But it is lacking more comprehensive features like discussion pages and a more news-appropriate layout, e.g. Slashdot. Surely The Next Big Thing deserves more than just a wikipage?
The role of WikiWorld in the promotion of wikis can be as much as Slashdot is in the promotion of technology - in other words, not very much at all; I see this project primarily as a centralized source for those already interested in wikis.
I've thrice made comparisons to Slashdot with good reason; what I imagine would be very much a news site just like Slashdot, simply with a narrow focus on wiki technology.
Kent Wang
P.S. - Thanks for your late-hour response. You must be a night owl, an early-riser or live in a different timezone!
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Kent Wang wrote
Therefore I propose that a website be created - let's call it
WikiWorld
for now - that is dedicated to news about wikis and wiki software.
Kent, you might want to look first at
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiInTheNews
on the Meatball Wiki site, for some perspective.
My guess is that 'promoting' wiki is still an unsolved problem. The reasons being that the concept doesn't make anyone money, nor save them time; in fact, just the opposite.
Charles
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Charles,
That is indeed a good page and perhaps the primary contributors of that wikipage would be interested in this proposal. But it is lacking more comprehensive features like discussion pages and a more news-appropriate layout, e.g. Slashdot. Surely The Next Big Thing deserves more than just a wikipage?
The role of WikiWorld in the promotion of wikis can be as much as Slashdot is in the promotion of technology - in other words, not very much at all; I see this project primarily as a centralized source for those already interested in wikis.
I've thrice made comparisons to Slashdot with good reason; what I imagine would be very much a news site just like Slashdot, simply with a narrow focus on wiki technology.
Kent Wang
P.S. - Thanks for your late-hour response. You must be a night owl, an early-riser or live in a different timezone!
Message: 2 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:49:22 -0000 From: "Charles Matthews" charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Proposal: News site about wikis To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Message-ID: 003401c3df4b$720f1c40$5f000450@Galasien Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Kent Wang wrote
Therefore I propose that a website be created - let's call it
WikiWorld
for now - that is dedicated to news about wikis and wiki software.
Kent, you might want to look first at
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiInTheNews
on the Meatball Wiki site, for some perspective.
My guess is that 'promoting' wiki is still an unsolved problem. The reasons being that the concept doesn't make anyone money, nor save them time; in fact, just the opposite.
Charles
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