Comments on: Twitter Packs or Are you on the list? http://toddjordan.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/twitter-packs-or-are-you-on-the-list/ Demystifying the web and more. Come join me. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:31:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: chrisbrogan http://toddjordan.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/twitter-packs-or-are-you-on-the-list/#comment-29 chrisbrogan Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:14:20 +0000 http://toddjordan.wordpress.com/?p=31#comment-29 But are wikis leaving things off, or are they places where everyone is empowered to add. There wasn't a they. It was everyone. And when I started, there was only Boston and San Francisco listed. I checked back 40 minutes later, and there was a whole page for geography. That's how wikis work. The thing is, our only typical example is Wikipedia, which has been built out for years. You saw, in one day, several hundred acts of self-organization rarely touched by me, and not yet backed out by anyone, as far as I know. When someone broke something, someone else came in and fixed it. The lesson wasn't the packs page. The lesson was the humans and what they did with it. Biggest concern: someone puts someone in a box they don't deserve to be in. I'm gay or I'm a Baptist or I'm from Missouri (show me!). My thought on this: change it to what's right. However, I *do* know that on wikipedia, there are sections that are just uneditable now, because it's just a forever loop of controversy. Mostly? Religion pages. Will it last? *.deity knows. Did I learn from it? Volumes. Only, not the lesson that the naysayers-come-lately think I should've learned. But are wikis leaving things off, or are they places where everyone is empowered to add. There wasn’t a they. It was everyone. And when I started, there was only Boston and San Francisco listed. I checked back 40 minutes later, and there was a whole page for geography.

That’s how wikis work. The thing is, our only typical example is Wikipedia, which has been built out for years.

You saw, in one day, several hundred acts of self-organization rarely touched by me, and not yet backed out by anyone, as far as I know. When someone broke something, someone else came in and fixed it.

The lesson wasn’t the packs page. The lesson was the humans and what they did with it.

Biggest concern: someone puts someone in a box they don’t deserve to be in. I’m gay or I’m a Baptist or I’m from Missouri (show me!). My thought on this: change it to what’s right.

However, I *do* know that on wikipedia, there are sections that are just uneditable now, because it’s just a forever loop of controversy. Mostly? Religion pages.

Will it last? *.deity knows. Did I learn from it? Volumes. Only, not the lesson that the naysayers-come-lately think I should’ve learned.

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