wiki + research = good?
May. 18th, 2007 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonFollowing up on a conversation I had with several people the first night of the Congress:
This post over at Early Modern Notes details the benefits of a wiki far better than I did or could have done. Primarily, I see such a setup as a means of collaborating on a project and/or sharing knowledge in an organized way.
Over dinner I mused aloud on the possibilities/limits of setting up a kind of "costume wiki" - while I'm all for sharing information, there's the related issues of how the site would be "policed" (if at all) to ensure that what gets posted/edited is relevant/accurate, and the problem of identifying competent "police" (in something as informal as a wiki, who decides who the experts really are?)
Still something I'm considering but not really ironed out yet, if only because I'm neither terrifically familiar with wiki software/setup nor with the demand for or use of such a thing (there are umpteen historic costume sites and mailing lists out there already). Just something I'm tossing around in my head because I like the idea of tech making it easier for brains to get together and do stuff :)
This post over at Early Modern Notes details the benefits of a wiki far better than I did or could have done. Primarily, I see such a setup as a means of collaborating on a project and/or sharing knowledge in an organized way.
Over dinner I mused aloud on the possibilities/limits of setting up a kind of "costume wiki" - while I'm all for sharing information, there's the related issues of how the site would be "policed" (if at all) to ensure that what gets posted/edited is relevant/accurate, and the problem of identifying competent "police" (in something as informal as a wiki, who decides who the experts really are?)
Still something I'm considering but not really ironed out yet, if only because I'm neither terrifically familiar with wiki software/setup nor with the demand for or use of such a thing (there are umpteen historic costume sites and mailing lists out there already). Just something I'm tossing around in my head because I like the idea of tech making it easier for brains to get together and do stuff :)
