[WikiEN-l] Proposal: News site about wikis

Tue Jan 20 12:14:55 UTC 2004

Charles,

That is indeed a good page and perhaps the primary contributors of that
wikipage would be interested in this proposal. But it is lacking more
comprehensive features like discussion pages and a more news-appropriate
layout, e.g. Slashdot. Surely The Next Big Thing deserves more than just
a wikipage?

The role of WikiWorld in the promotion of wikis can be as much as
Slashdot is in the promotion of technology - in other words, not very
much at all; I see this project primarily as a centralized source for
those already interested in wikis.

I've thrice made comparisons to Slashdot with good reason; what I
imagine would be very much a news site just like Slashdot, simply with a
narrow focus on wiki technology.

Kent Wang

P.S. - Thanks for your late-hour response. You must be a night owl, an
early-riser or live in a different timezone!

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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:49:22 -0000
From: "Charles Matthews" <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Proposal: News site about wikis
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
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Kent Wang wrote

> Therefore I propose that a website be created - let's call it
WikiWorld
> for now - that is dedicated to news about wikis and wiki software.

Kent, you might want to look first at

http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiInTheNews

on the Meatball Wiki site, for some perspective.

My guess is that 'promoting' wiki is still an unsolved problem.  The
reasons
being that the concept doesn't make anyone money, nor save them time; in
fact, just the opposite.

Charles

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