On Tuesday 19 July 2005 01:55 am, Khepri wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > He's displayed, in that one article, a
> > thorough lack of understanding of A) Wikipedia's social mechanisms, B)
> > US culture in the aggregate, C) psychology, D) the behavior of both
> > vandals and knowledge-seekers, and D) the proper use of several terms.
> >
> > That's okay, though. People like him make the rest of us look good by
> > comparison.
>
> The more articles that appear attacking wikis, the more I wonder what
> "money" and motivation is behind it?
Take the following with this caveat -- I don't use wikis, and so have no first
hand experience...
I've never understood the attractiveness of wikis. There's only so
authoritative something can be when *absolutely anyone at any time for any
reason* can materially change the stated facts. True, I know nothing about
its social mechanisms, but there's no technical way I know of to keep
erroneous info out.
Then there's my more mundane gripe about wikis -- they're slow, requiring a
mouse and web page updates. This makes them less useful for groupware than
one might otherwise imagine.
Steve Litt
Founder and acting president: GoLUG
http://www.golug.org
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