[Campaigns-l] Some Thoughts

[George Murray]

Angela,

I am new to contributing to Wikis and am interested in participating in
campaigns.wikia.com. I agree with the comment made about Wikis probably not
having the best functionality for debate. Forums certainly do have wikis
beat on that. However, forums come in a wide range of functions. For the
campaigns wikia I would suggest a forum kind of like digg.com's comments
section. Where fellow wiki contributors can rate a post on its value, and
posts of high value can rise and eventually be added to a wikia page with
the most valuable information skimmed from the forum discussion.

For instance you could have a forum "thread" tied to the debate of global
warming. Posts can have a thread heirarchy for organization. Poor posts can
be voted down and out. A post rating history is kept to make sure no one is
just rating down their opponents viewpoints. Wiki contributors cannot
re-write each others posts, but they can re-organize posts to create a more
distilled discussion. The highest level of talking points can be the wiki
page.

I am new to contributing to wikis so forgive me if my lingo is not on
target, but I hope that I have gotten my point across. The merging of a
flowing participatory forum functionality with the opening of wikis can
distill topics and present the basics for visitors.

Thanks,
gmurray

On 7/6/06, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/7/06, bruce boston <bboston at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wonder if we couldn't use a set of forums that went along with the
> Wiki.
>
> We do have a wiki-based forum at
> http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:The_Soapbox - the idea is
> combine the advantages of a forum with those of a wiki. I'd be
> interested to know what everyone thinks of it, especially those people
> new to wikis. Is it much harder to use than the forums you're used to?
>
> Angela.
>
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