[Wolves] Wiki

[s parkes]

>From: Matthew Revell <matthew@understated.co.uk>
>Reply-To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
>To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Wolves] Wiki
>Date: 28 May 2003 12:34:28 +0100
>The attitude is that although a feature may be
>useful, if it doesn't fit with a particular ideology, it'll be
>purposefully left out.
>
Wiki's are an ideology ;-) thats the entire point.  you trust the users not 
to poison the content and in return they add a little of their own to your 
effort.

they are an extension of the open source world only because they are 
normally developed under opensource models they really belong to the 
artistic communities who have co-created and distrubuted works for a number 
of years.

They are a piece of art, and infomation resource and a constantly evolving 
zine and belong more to the world of the photcopied zine than to the world 
of commericial content creation.  They will be used in commercial 
applications as commerce grows up and understands that you don't have to own 
the world to make a living from it.

>
>Yeah, that's something I could do and I may have a try. But my point
>isn't so much that the feature doesn't exist but rather that it's a bit
>naff that a feature can be stifled for political reasons.
>
have a try, you have all the support you need to develop an open source 
application.  It's a right of passage ;-)

> > disclaimer - it made sense in my head!
>
>:) So did my reply.
>
disclaimer, I once made sence in public.

sparkes

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