[thelist] Open Source government wikis

[Steven Streight]

Wikinomic thinking is based on expanding the pool of talent, effort,
insight, far beyond the walls of the corporation. See IBM and Linux as a
fairly good example.

On 2/5/07, Steven Streight <steven.streight at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Wiki vandalism is highly over-hyped. It's similar to preventing comment
> spam and spambot drippings on blogs. For blogs, you use comment moderation,
> perhaps a captcha in rare and extreme cases of botnet spam attacks.
>
> For wikis, you simply make it semi-public, in other words, only authorized
> team members can edit anything, but the pool of team members can expand as
> they are invited or as they request to be contributors.
>
> I suggest everyone interested in collab to read WIKINOMICS by Don Tapscott
> (author of The Digital Economy) and discover how even goldmining was
> crowdsourced by Goldcorp, Inc, and many other stories.
>
> On 2/5/07, Julian Rickards <julian.rickards at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Out of curiousity, thinking of Wikipedia and the problems it
> > occassionally
> > has with "vandalism", why would you consider a wiki for this type of
> > organization?
> >
> > On 05/02/07, Steven Streight < steven.streight at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > If anyone has set up wikis for local/state government collaboration
> > > projects, I'd love to have links to the wikis and to articles about
> > it. Am
> > > wanting to start a wiki for a major new institution, affliated with a
> > > local
> > > university and a high ranking public servant, revolving around
> > integrity
> > > and
> > > ethics in government leadership.
> > >
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Steven Streight aka Vaspers the Grate
Web Usability. Blog Revolution. Ecommerce.

steven [dot] streight [at] gmail [dot] com

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