Ken Manheimer wrote:
Convenient for what? If you've ever tried to support a community through a mailling list, you'll quickly notice that questions, and their corresponding answers, repeat. A lot. The problem is that while maillists are great for keeping people up-to-date on the business of the community, and for disseminating dialogue, they are not so good for building structures - for organizing content so related pieces of a story are appropriately connected.
The counter that this is that Wikis, in my experience (and maybe mine only ;-), are not a good medium for discussions. There's no threading, ntoficiation or subscription, for starters...
Wikis, as they stand, are not bad for organizing stories.
..agreed, but a lot of Wikis are not being used for this. It's a difficult problem. You need a decent medium for discussion, like a mailing list, which needs to automatically (and that seems _very_ hard to me) extract the necessary 'story' bits and store them in a decent story-building medium...
We all sorely miss change notifications and ownership attribution, a preview button, etc - but they're better, even as they currently stand, for building longstanding artifacts than are mailling lists. And hopefully, in not too long, we'll be able to improve them, or provide something else, to do the job right.
Well, the WikiDot idea is starting to crop up in my brain a bit more now ;-) And since that'd be a Swishdot skin, it'd work with the PTK, and everyone's happy and focussed on what they want to be :-) cheers, Chris