Hi Arjun,
I too have attended the recent WIKI 10 in National Center for
Advanced Studies, a very prestigious
venue where great ideas germinate. And Mr,Lawrence Liang's speech still
reverberates.But for his speech which was the highlight of my Sunday and 10%
of my individual interaction time with different wikipedians the event
was lifeless and very formal (may be because I didn't understand much of
technology).
Right now ,I am scribbling down my thoughts on the screen which
may be irrelevant to Wikis, but I
feel this kind of scribbling may enhance the quality of the future meets and
wiki edits.
Your quote," There is no chance that if one user finds one
information very useful wants to *share with others.*" defeats the very
fabric of "knowledge society" which is getting ready to share everything may
be except a few personal acts(even that a few share on the web which is not
a secret).
This Idea of "sharing with others" is taking deep roots all over
the world and Bill Gates is coming to India to convince Ambanis and
Mahindras and Birlas(difficult prospect) to share their legal booty.
My addressing Hi, Is it for Arjun or Omkar? ,I am mischievously
confused,like the idea of Wiki. Hi to all.
Gokuldas
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <
arjunaraoc(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Omkar Shetkar <omkarshetkar(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi All,
I attended the recent 10th anniversary celebrations of Wikipedia in
Bangalore. In the public event we had a discussion regarding giving
socialization look to Wikipedia. On the contrary we had a view that it will
dilute the very purpose of Wikipedia. Of course I agree that Wikipedia
should not be used as a scratch pad to scribble something. It is a
repository of authentic and informative knowledge. But that information
should be sharable with others. It is the fact that user can reach to that
information only if he is interested to know it. There is no chance that if
one user finds one information very useful wants to *share with others. *Can
we have popular *SHARE *button in Wikipedia? By this Wikipedia articles
will have more number of visitors and possibly more contributors.
Interesting idea, worth checking the links on this page
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bug_reports_and_feature_requests>and logging
a bug if required.
Cheers
Arjun
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