[Campaigns-l] Short sweet critique

[Becky Blackham]

Dear Steve,

I hope you /do/ pop back in often, and even on the site itself (!?) 
though it sounds like you have your hands more than full if you are 
involved in any of the work load you describe going on at WP. 
Fascinating. I will definitely be around, here as well as the site. The 
non-virtual world interfered with my plans for today, unfortunately. I'd 
be pleased if you ever dropped me a note off list, if there was ever 
something related to our discussions but too OT for the list. :)

Becky

 
stevertigo wrote:
> --- Becky Blackham <bblackham at san.rr.com> wrote:
>   
>> Thank you so very much for the explanation of "trust 
>> metric" 
>>     
>
> :)
>
>   
>> The distinction between fact and intelligence, your definitions for 
>> each, are all very helpful. It seems the c-wiki (did you call it that?) 
>> we are using has the useful quality of being very efficiently revisable. 
>> There's both speed and ease of access to revise and the potential 
>> massively parallel collaboration to do as much work as required. 
>>     
>
> Thanks Becky, and youre more than welcome. Youre right about using wiki for a startup,
> and its good enough for most things for that purpose. To a large extent theres enough
> flexibility in the software to make it do whatever you want, as long as there is a core
> purpose to make it something other than just a "wiki." 
>
> Im still stuck thinking more in the Wikipedia dimension, as it has gotten busier than
> most people can even think about. But just taking a bellweather as an example, WP now
> has a huge backlog at WP:RQM - almost 1000 sysops and a backlog on requests for page
> moves! That speaks volumes to anyone who understands how important the balances are.
> The *functional standard for content over there isnt NPOV or encyclopedic value - its
> something like ''if its not vandalism' it's at least debatable and may stay, and if its
> true it will endure in substance, if not in the particular form it was written.''
>
> With all that data (some of it "facts") comes the need for increased intelligence on
> that data; for example WP:RC has long been useless for keeping up with things going on,
> and other tools like watchlists, spam and vandal fighting helpers, and a whole bunch of
> others have been developed. Some of these tools, as they are implemented by savvy
> people, could be said to deviate from the 'all are equal' "wiki" model. :)
>
> So thats just an abstraction of whats going on over there to help you guys out here to
> understand the concepts of how "a wiki" (ie. a collaborative community) works. Ill pop
> in on this list from time to time.
>
> Steven
>
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