Posted by: jimhogan
Do Wikis suck? - 20/01/2005 14:13
Example:
http://nibiru.borg.metux.de:7000/wiki.mpm/
So, is it the implementation of Wikis, or the nature of Wikis?
Or is Jim just dumb/obtuse?
Discuss.
(edit: Jim calms down and spells Wiki correctly. Maybe. Oh, and i was trying to find out about Metux MPM for Apache.)
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Do Wikis suck? - 20/01/2005 14:39
As an example of unsuck, check out
Wikipedia. It's phenomenal.
Now, whether it's the exception or not I don't know. All I can say is that that shows that they don't have to suck.
Also, I'm not sure what your example is supposed to show other than a complete lack of information. Oh, I see. Some idiot vandalized it. I reverted it for you.
Posted by: hybrid8
Re: Do Wikis suck? - 20/01/2005 20:14
I was hoping someone would consolidate all these new geeky pass-times (blogs, wikis, etc..) as "WOFTs" - Waste of Time.
Maybe I just don't like the term blog... And wiki just conjures up memories of when the Brady family went to Hawaii. Or maybe I'm tired of seeing sites devoted mindless rambling and people so desperate for attention.
Bruno
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Do Wikis suck? - 27/01/2005 14:51
Agreed. Wikis require editors. If you have enough users that the users can do it themselves, great. If not, you need someone specific looking at it all the time.
In this case, the page you linked to was just a redirect to the real info, which had not been vandalized, but no one was probably looking at the link. In the real world, if you came across a vandalized thing that you needed, you'd call the cops. It'd help if there was a contact listed on the Wiki that would have been equivalent to the cops -- well, repair crew, really.
But, for future reference, there's a link on every Wiki page that will show you the history of the page. Find the latest one that isn't vandalized, load it, click edit, don't change anything, and click submit, hopefully including a description of what you did (revert) in the comments field. I know that that's not intuitive knowledge, but there you go.
Posted by: g_attrill
Re: Do Wikis suck? - 27/01/2005 15:35
Here's a good "blog" started recently. The writer is a magistrate who posts a lot on the newsgroups, all anon of course:
http://thelawwestofealingbroadway.blogspot.com/
edit: Also interesting is the "The Policeman's Blog":
http://coppersblog.blogspot.com/
See the links down the right for many similar ones, I've only just seen this one and will do lots of reading later. These job-specific ones are very interesting.
Gareth