Magnus Manske wrote:
See my up-and-running early attempt at
http://magnusmanske.de/stuff/test.php
Perhaps I'm just having one of my pessimistic days, but I doubt that
this project will ever take off. Is anybody really interested in
annontating literature on a big scale? I know that annotated books
exist on paper, but I haven't seen many websites that do this, with or
without wiki technology.
I first embraced wiki technology because it allowed me to build a
website faster and in a more structured fashion than other methods I
had used to build websites. But I was already building websites.
Hundreds of Wikipedia volunteers have a history of running their own
small websites where they have been compiling small dictionaries or
knowledge databases, and they are attracted to Wikipedia because
it allows them to cooperate and do the same thing on a bigger scale.
But who is doing "annotated literature on the web" today, that could
be attracted by the wikisource/wikibooks project allowing them to do
"the same thing" but faster and bigger? Really? Who?
I don't want to be pessimistic, so I hope you can convince me that
my first impression is wrong. I also think that asking "who", i.e.
finding out who the target audience / volunteer force is going to be,
is a useful first step towards learning "how" it should be
implemented.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se/