[Foundation-l] [Fwd: About Alexandria] -> to Usenet ?

[Mathias Damour]

Hi,

Dan Rosenthal a écrit :
> 
> I'm not sure Wikipedia is a good comparison. People LIKE the rambling,
> build-the-web, see-also-these-wikilinks nature of Wikipedia that
> encourages people to learn about more than just that one little nugget
> they are reading about. Many OTRS mails are to the effect of "I love
> wikipedia, I was looking for information on X but then I found out
> something I never knew about Y."

Sure, but it's something completely different to be able to read *if you want so* on a more specific subject in any direction you want, and get a proper abstract of it, than have to read a lot of messages for which you can't know before if they worth it, or even what they are about precisely, just not to miss the ones that you wouldn't like to miss (if there is some).
It still surprises me to see that people that are involved in a so reader-friendly content project forget it so much here.
I may be a matter of efficiency : when a poster takes 5 or 10 minutes of his time to write his post properly, he might save 2 or 3 hours to readers. If he sends just one post instead of 4 before, it (and the one of a low volume posters) would be better noticed, which is what they are written for.

I guess it may be induced by the system you use (wiki/e-mail...), and I know from experience on other mailing list that there is little hope to change habits on this point, that's why I told about moving this list to usenet.

Mathias Damour