[Wikimedia-l] Stack Exchange vs. Wikimedia

[Martijn Hoekstra]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> is anyone out here participating in any of the Stack Exchange projects?


Yes, I participate in Stackoverflow mainly


> Do people here still really think voting is a bad thing and wiki is the
> easiest way to collaborate?
>

No, and meh. But voting on a consensus driven model is bad. And a wiki is a
decent way to collaborate. It is starting to show its age (real time
collaboration as i.e. etherpad is far more awesome, but we're a decent bit
away from that). Q&A sites aren't a way to collaborate. They fill a
different niche.

>
> I have repeatedly had proposals for employing some voting mechanism at
> least on the back-stage, but no one was listening to me...
>
> Cheers,
> Kozuch
>

That's probably because voting is a bad way to create consensus.



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