[p2p-research] some wiki editing rules

[Michel Bauwens]

hi maria,

I'm not a gamer and not familiar with the specifics of WoW ...

some people have suggested ideas similar to the idea of a benevolent
dictator, like I would just pull the plug ..

doing this would be a dramatic and for me it is only to be used in extreme
circumstances, when you are sure the other party is a troll or a spammer,

I don't think this is the case here, so however 'dramatic the clash', the
aim is to generate a community discussion and perhaps that will lead to a
maturation of our governance ...

let's see what happens ..

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, I am Maria and I like WYSIWYG.
>
> It sounds only slightly better than, "and I am an alcoholic" - but there it
> is. I am confident in my abilities to read code, to program and even to do a
> little computer science if needed. But I want to confess my love of tools
> like Wikispaces, Google Docs, Etherpad clones and Jing, because they support
> two things I do daily, in bulk:
>
> - Copying and pasting of content without reading code
> - Inviting noobs to do one-time contributions
>
> I have been using Elluminate, provided free through LearnCentral, to host
> one-hour conversations about math communities:
> http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events
> For someone who has not done a webinar before, it typically takes about
> half an hour to configure the sound system and to try out the five relevant
> moderator tools. As we do this training, we discuss the event, so I feel it
> is fair to ask for that time, in a live on-topic conversation. But with
> shorter contributions that don't focus the community limelight on the
> contributor quite as much as a hosted event, the ratio of training/creation
> has to be significantly smaller than 1/2. Actually, I only feel comfortable
> with one-liner training: "The edit button is at the top right" or
> "Double-click anywhere to add your comment."
>
> I looked at the WYSIWYG versions of the pages linked in this thread, and at
> the first glance, they seemed "editable enough" with code pieces marked as
> <special>.
>
> The personal conflict expressed in this thread, and implications for the
> communities I am trying to build, makes me long for the structure of the
> World of Warcraft guild to which I belong: a benevolent dictatorship. It
> looks like p2p is going for a meritocracy, though, and currently two
> different dimensions of merit, content and technological, are clashing in a
> rather scary manner.
>
> Cheers,
> Maria Droujkova
>
> Make math your own, to make your own math.
>
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