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If You Build It, Why Will They Come?

If You Build It, Why Will They Come?

CommunityWiki: IfYouBuildItTheyWillCome.  There is some question about what has a wiki attract participants.  One could say the same thing about what has people read and comment on one web log and not another.

I notice that I am not so disturbed to see different blogs that cover the same material.  There is association with different voices and participants in whatever the communal conversation is.  I don't even worry about redundancy, and working through feeds it is easy to discard repetitive simple references to the same thing by different bloggers.

At the same time, the appearance of wikis with overlapping subject matter is frustrating, because a wiki is not something that one gets to follow.  Wikis work differently than logs/journals and hyperdocuments.  Notification of changes and new pages has to work differently too.  I don't know how a feed could work better, but just using the summary line about a change to a wiki page is not enough as a syndication item.

posted by orcmid at 5/14/2004 07:37:39 PM