From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Apr 23 12:20:12 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hg455-0005f3-LN for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:20:12 -0700 Received: from mta02.mx.cix.co.uk ([212.241.168.132]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hg451-0005er-VC for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:20:11 -0700 X-Envelope-From: lojban@solipsys.co.uk Received: from Q.composers (solipsys.compulink.co.uk [194.153.10.165]) by mta02.mx.cix.co.uk (8.13.6/CIX/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l3NJK3SQ021553; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:20:04 +0100 Received: from Q (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Q.composers (8.12.6/8.12.6/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id l3NJJNjQ001801; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:19:23 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: lojban@solipsys.co.uk To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Beginning Lojban and web sites. Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:19:20 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Message-Id: <200704232019.20940.lojban@solipsys.co.uk> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS - amavis-milter (http://www.amavis.org/) X-SpamChance: 0.000000 X-Spam-Score: -2.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: -20 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4394 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojban@solipsys.co.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners > ... there are many places in the wiki where people contradict > each other... I seem to remember an piece of text ascribed to > somebody and that somebody adding on the wiki page that they > weren't responsible for it at all. But that is ok on a wiki. That's a wiki equivalent of malglico. It's using a wiki like a bulletin board or forum, rather than using it natively like a wiki. When editing a wiki you should create web pages that are suitable to be read as documents, which generally does not include contradictions and conversations unless appropriately framed. I agree, however, that most people do use a wiki as if it's a forum, and your points are well taken. > My point was that in addition to a wiki, a regular website > is needed to draw people in. Certainly one benefits from a clean, clear, "open" front page. I would claim that a properly managed wiki can achieve that, although I just as quickly admit that it rarely does. -- You can't wind me up - I'm electric!