1,316
edits
User talk:DavidCary: Difference between revisions
→adding new wikis plan - and idea for collaboration: brainstorming.
MarkDilley (talk | contribs) (just an idea) |
(→adding new wikis plan - and idea for collaboration: brainstorming.) |
||
| Line 50: | Line 50: | ||
David, you have the technical part right! :-) - I am interested in a social part, like a mini barn raising on these, say we choose a few hours to work together, or a day, and count how many we have been able to add? Trying to get up my energy for tackling the problem. [[Wolf Peuker]] suggests that we not add more to this list and I have dozens more in my bookmark folder to add... Just and idea to create something. Best, [[MarkDilley]] | David, you have the technical part right! :-) - I am interested in a social part, like a mini barn raising on these, say we choose a few hours to work together, or a day, and count how many we have been able to add? Trying to get up my energy for tackling the problem. [[Wolf Peuker]] suggests that we not add more to this list and I have dozens more in my bookmark folder to add... Just and idea to create something. Best, [[MarkDilley]] | ||
Excellent. | |||
Certainly I agree with Peu that it is better to have a full page on each wiki, rather than a one-liner in the [[Wikis to Add]]. | |||
And if we could motivate people to do that, then that would be the best all around. | |||
On the other hand, I suspect that if we discourage people from adding to "Wikis to Add", then those people will keep that information to themselves. | |||
In something called a "bookmark folder". | |||
Just a hunch I have. | |||
Then when I search WikiIndex for a wiki on some topic, I won't find anything at all :-(. | |||
When searching for some topic, I'd rather at least find a one-line mention of that topic in the "Wikis to Add" page, then I can be happy that I've found other wiki-positive people who share my interest in that topic :-). | |||
It's certainly much less work for me to take a link off the "Wikis to Add" page and create a page for it, than to hack into Mark Dilley's bookmark folder to find it and *then* create a page for it :-). | |||
I'm no expert, but perhaps there is a better way to motivate and encourage ourselves and other people to: | |||
* take one wiki at a time off the list on that page, and create a page for it. | |||
What exactly is stopping people from doing that now? | |||
< brainstorming > | |||
* Perhaps few people know about that page? -> perhaps we could mention it more prominently ... somewhere ... (It's already mentioned on the [[Community Portal]]). | |||
* Perhaps people are scared to edit a page once it gets above a certain size? -> somehow chop it up into smaller, less-overwhelming pieces ... | |||
* Perhaps people don't know the right process for taking a wiki off that list and making a fresh page for it? -> somehow write better, friendlier, easier to understand instructions? | |||
* Perhaps people do know the right process, but it seems like a lot of work? Or it requires several steps including X and Y, and some people don't feel comfortable doing X, while others don't feel comfortable doing Y? -> somehow Break it up into smaller steps, encourage people -- especially newbies -- to find some task they feel comfortable doing, make a little forward progress at a time, and make it easy for others to pick up where the last person left off. | |||
* Perhaps the process of creating a really good page about a wiki requires both X, Y, and Z, but lots of pages are stalled out waiting for Y? -> perhaps, somehow encourage more people to do more Y work. Make it easy for obsessive-compulsives to plow through a whole lot of repetitive Y work for many different wiki. Give people little pictures of barnstars or chocolate-chip cookies when they achieve significant amounts of Y work. Make it a game. | |||
* Some other reason? ... | |||
* ...? -> Or is there something better we could do? | |||
< /brainstorming > | |||
OK, that's enough of me rambling on *about* the problem, rather than actually *doing* something productive. | |||
--[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 17:41, 25 February 2008 (EST) | |||