[LINK] Delimiter Wiki

[Renai LeMay]

The behaviour I am seeing from users today (the site has been Slashdotted on
this issue, which helps) suggests that the act of creating an
Australia-specific technology wiki has stimulated the publication of a lot
of micro-pages which would have otherwise never been published -- for
example, I know of someone posting a page about their high school IT
teacher.

It's an interesting experiment. But in general, the internet loathes
hierarchies and loves duplication, and Wikipedia atm is nothing if not a
hierarchy.

The more wikis around the world the better, I think.

Renai


On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Michael Biber <mike at thebibers.com> wrote:

> Actually I withdraw the 'crass' comment. Sorry about that; nothing wrong
> with commercialism.
> Does anything actually get lost in Wikipedia that way? Surely searching for
> Australian content in either Wiki will always find it....or not in equal
> measure...vagaries of different search engines ignored here, but in
> principle is it really that much harder to find once it's put in there?
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Renai LeMay
> Sent: Monday, 12 April 2010 10:41 AM
> To: link at mailman1.anu.edu.au
> Subject: [LINK] Delimiter Wiki
>
> hi LINKers,
>
> have been aware of this list for some years but haven't been a member
> for a while -- an oversight that probably occurred when I changed
> email addresses :)
>
> As @stilgherrian noted, I am not aiming to make money from the
> Delimiter Wiki. I set it up because as a journalist, I have long been
> frustrated by the lack of a central knowledgebase about the Australian
> ICT industry that would go some ways towards recording its long and
> controversial history.
>
> As I have recently setup my own company, I am now in a position to
> make this happen.
>
> As for the question: "Why not contribute to Wikipedia?", I have found
> that Australian content gets lost in the vast fields of Wikipedia and
> is hard to find. Sure, there are the odd bits and pieces, but in
> general they are linked to all the international stuff and the
> Australian context gets lost.
>
> Delimiter Wiki is intended to be an Australian view of the Australian
> ICT industry, as Delimiter itself is. I am a staunchly Australian
> publisher.
>
> In actual fact, if you want to take the Delimiter Wiki content and
> simply cut and paste it into Wikipedia, under the terms of the CC
> licence, that would be completely fine :)
>
> And if you *still* think I'm getting rich off Delimiter, come check
> out my office sometime ;)
>
> http://bit.ly/cPOOOB
>
> Cheers,
>
> Renai
>
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