How does the wiki organize the posted "good" data? The archives are useful but cumbersome... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Fred Sturm" <fssturm at unm.edu> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org> Received: 7/15/2008 9:57:19 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Forum format (was Re: Requirements forcontributing/posting; RPT status >On Jul 15, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Alan McCoy wrote: >> What I keep coming back to though is >> the idea of an online database, or repository, of collective >> knowledge and >> wisdom, a wikipedia of piano technology, if you will. I think I have >> been >> trying to shoehorn the listserve format into something it is not >> designed to >> do. The two vehicles together would be more useful than either alone. > I think that the two concepts could work well together - one being a >discussion group, the other an organized archive. With a skeleton >archive wiki (or whatever) in place, people could be encouraged to >post to it: "That was well put. Why don't you post it to the wiki?" >And over time, it might become habit: have something to say that seems >worth saving? Post it to both. Or write a more permanent version to >post to the archive. > I certainly share your frustration with the archives as currently >constituted. I find searching it an exercise in futility as often as >not. There is some great stuff in it, but hard to ferret out. >Regards, >Fred Sturm >University of New Mexico >fssturm at unm.edu
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