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Thu, 28 Aug 2003
Wiki's and good vs bad people.
If you're going to read Clay Shirky's piece Wikis, Grafitti, and Process, be sure that you read Ben Hyde's
follow up.
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I've seen my share a wiki skeptics, as detailed in this post. Clay Shirky hits the nail on the head when he points out why they are resilient - it takes more effort to despoil a wiki than it takes tto restore the original content. I saw this first hand a few years ago when a complete idiott decided that it was his god given right to deface pages here. He carried on for about a week and a half, gettting increasingly angry after each rollback of his graffiti - but he eventually gave up - because his bad behavior was more work than my restorations.
Posted by Trackback from Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants at Thu Aug 28 06:06:44 2003
There are a few other really good points in the post that go beyond wikis - the introductory points about process, for instance. Ted Leung points out this followup. Ben Hyde clearly doesn't agree with Clay's process arguments - both points of view are worth reading.
Posted by Trackback from Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants at Thu Aug 28 06:06:44 2003
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