[Wolves] Wikis - an article

[Aquarius]

Matthew Revell spoo'd forth:
> Okay, I reckon I'd quite like to write an article on wikis, for 
> ContentPeople. I've got quite a bit of material gathered together and I'm 
> getting a review copy of The Wiki Way through the post soon. However, does 
> anyone here have any thoughts on wikis? Specifically, I think I'm going to 
> write the article from the point of view that wikis offer perhaps one of 
> the true implementations of what the web was created for - easy sharing of 
> information amongst like minded people, for the sake of it. I think wikis 
> are interesting because of their shift from top down to collaborative 
> publishing. Does anyone have anything to say about it?

Hm. Not a lot other than "I agree", although I think that the notion of 
collaborative publishing is enabled but rarely actually *done* by wikis. I see 
them being used quite a bit more as a place where a main author or author 
group can put up things online which can be corrected by everyone, rather than 
true collaboration (if such a thing exists...)

Aq.

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