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thoughts on SwitchWiki
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Still don't know if inactive template should be applied on SwitchWiki ? [[Christophe Ducamp]] | <small>[[User talk:ChristopheDucamp|talk]]</small> 14:17, 18 Feb 2006 (EST) | Still don't know if inactive template should be applied on SwitchWiki ? [[Christophe Ducamp]] | <small>[[User talk:ChristopheDucamp|talk]]</small> 14:17, 18 Feb 2006 (EST) | ||
Hi Christophe, I don't think the inactive template should be used, because the wiki is still active, just the project that is done. [[MarkDilley]] | <small>[[User talk:MarkDilley|talk]]</small> | |||
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Notes about SwitchWiki, [[MarkDilley]] | <small>[[User talk:MarkDilley|talk]]</small> | |||
Why SwitchWiki is important for newcomers. | |||
*Is* it important for newcomers? | |||
They're already here. See it more and more. | |||
Would there be anything interesting for them to see happen in that space? | |||
Anything important to have there? | |||
What's the moment they knew they would stay and be (active) members of the | |||
community/communities? What conditions made it possible? | |||
How do you provide newbies with the tools that allow them to | |||
participate without hand-holding and without disruption? Or with limited | |||
hand-holding and limited disruption? And if there needs to be handholding and | |||
disruption, how do we deal with that? [The question that occurs to me now, as | |||
I sit in this airport and type, is: Might disruption be something that is, at | |||
times, in some ways, *desirable*? Does disruption produce anything that's | |||
valuable to the community? So that it's not just something to be weathered or | |||
managed, but something to be wanted, even sought. And then my next question | |||
is: if there *is* such a thing as desirable disruption, what conditions make | |||
that possible? I'm not sure if my line of questioning makes sense or if it's | |||
interesting to you, but it's what I find myself wondering right now. I'm | |||
thinking again of teaching. There is such a thing as a too-docile student. | |||
You want a degree of resistance. But the right kind of resistance!) | |||