<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Aaron,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 12, 2006, at 3:24 AM, Aaron Bassett wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Sorry I forgot to include the URL for the javascript wiki on wetpaint: <A href="http://javascript.wetpaint.com/page/Home">http://javascript.wetpaint.com/page/Home</A><BR><BR>Incase you missed my last email this wiki has already been setup by someone on <A href="http://wetpaint.com">wetpaint.com</A> but it has been abandoned or they couldn't raise any awareness for it (or both).<BR><BR>Either way it is currently lying empty so we could adopt and use it?<BR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I applaud your initiative, but I think we need more of a consensus before we start something. One of the reasons the css-d wiki has worked well is because there is a sense of community ownership. List members periodically add to it and update it, and frequently point people to it for answers to their questions. Partly it is a 'self-defense' mechanism to keep from having to answer the same question over and over again on a high volume list (when it's working). I'm not sure this list has a high enough volume to trigger that kind of response.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There are a couple of general stumbling blocks to creating a good wiki. 1. Finding enough qualified maintainers who are willing to spend the time up-front putting in/linking to starter content and willing to check on/update the content over time. 2. Striking a balance between making it easy for people to add content but keep spammers out. (Anyone tried to use the ruby wiki recently?)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Computer language wikis have another problem in that the kinds of tasks you could try to solve is almost limitless. Keeping the wiki down to a manageable size means dealing with common cases and generalities. Otherwise it ends up being yet another script site. It will need to be well organized so people can find what they are looking for, or they will give up and ask the list anyway.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm not at all saying we shouldn't create a wiki, but it will be far more work than we might estimate. Therefore we need more than 1 or 2 people to be involved to make it fly.</DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">Roger Roelofs</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">Datacomp Appraisal Services</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>