[WikiEN-l] Proposal: News site about wikis

Tue Jan 20 12:22:50 UTC 2004

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From: "Kent Wang" <kwang at kwang.org>
To: <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
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Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Proposal: News site about wikis


> 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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