Re: Wiki as A Time Saver for Researchers

From: DonJan (don.janeczko_at_itt.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: 17 Sep 2004 06:25:34 -0700

coolspeech@hotmail.com wrote in message news:<ci9ufa$77q@odak26.prod.google.com>...
> Although I'm not an official spokesman for Wikipedia, interestingly I
> met one who really is a Wiki professonal and responded to my message
> ("Wiki as A Time Saver for Researchers") at the newsgroup sci.research.
>
> He ("David Mattison") seems to support my initiative and posted more
> background information about Wiki under my original message.
>
> I've noticed Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger did a lot of work on
> scientific newsgroups to promote Wikipedia in 2001. (Search
> http://groups.google.com for "author:lsanger@nupedia.com"). That is the
> first year of Wikipedia, a much harder time to convince people to use
> Wiki than now.
>
> I posted my original message to several sci.* newsgroups, and really
> attracted some discussions on this idea. These discussions make me see
> a chance of pushing my idea a step toward reality: maybe I should
> prepare Wikipedia pages for every sci.* newsgroup.
>
> Some sci/engineering newsgroups (mostly the comp.* ones) use FAQ
> (frequently asked questions) pages to organize common
> problems/solutions and prevent repeated discussions. FAQs are text
> controlled by newsgroup moderators and thus their content is limited. I
> think, if every sci.* newsgroup is equipped with a Wiki main page, it
> can well serve the original purpose of FAQ. There can be a message
> periodically announcing the URL and "What's New" of the Wiki page for a
> newsgroup.

Wiki is Spam. I now know about it and that's enough. Go away. this
page is for optics not your software trash.

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