Re: Experimental Wiki at midrange.com

Like David said so elegantly, I see Wikipedia as a source of knowlegde for 
"What is iSeries?" not "How do I do SQL in a RPG program?" A midrange user 
will more likely search the midrange.com <http://midrange.com> site before 
searching Wikipedia for this knowledge. Midrange.com
<http://Midrange.com>to me seems to be the central hub for anything
iSeries related. Wikipedia
gives me a source to find out what something is. Does PHP, Linux, Perl, and 
Microsoft store all of thier information in Wikipedia? No. Why should we? 
Many, many open-source (and others) maintain a wiki for various reasons they 
don't say "Hey, lets store everything in Wikipedia!". The other I see is 
control. We don't control Wikipedia. Yes, we can push content and we can 
monitor to make sure someone doesn't mess it up, but we still don't have 
full control a team of people at Yahoo! (IIRC) run everything. Here, David 
and his team runs it and we will make sure that there is quality content.

If you don't like this new wiki, don't use it. Simple solution for a 
difficult problem. I for one support it and will be using it. The big thing 
is that our community needs to take a bit of extra time to update it. Like a 
blog or the FAQ, you need to take the time to document it. 

On 5/24/05, Eric Lehti with CPU <president@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Mike Wills,
> According to the Wall Street Journal, the issues you describe (see bottom 
> of
> message) have already been addressed by the new site 
> wikicities.com<http://wikicities.com>, 
> created
> by the wikipedia people. The Wall Street Journal article (cited below)
> discusses how the things you seek are already at 
> wikicities.com<http://wikicities.com>
> .
> 
> In any event, a dedicated band of volunteers, willing to devote thousands 
> of
> hours in an unpaid labor of love, is needed to make a success of projects 
> of
> this size and scope. Time will reveal whether David's group of volunteers
> outperform those at wikipedia.org <http://wikipedia.org> and 
> wikicities.com <http://wikicities.com>.
> 
> I foresee a lot of duplicated effort, however, and that is regrettable.
> 
> EricL
> 
>