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Please remove me from the list
Regards Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Dralle" <dralle@matronics.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:12 PM
Subject: JabiruEngine-List: Wiki...
> <dralle@matronics.com>
>
> Dear Listers,
>
> I added a new Wiki web site to the Matronics Email List features earlier
> this year. What's a Wiki, you ask? Well, here's the Wikipedia
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki) definition:
>
> A wiki (IPA: [ w .ki ] <WICK-ee> or [ wi .ki ] <WEE-kee>) is a type of Web
> site that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and
> otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the
> need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a
> wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring. The term wiki also
> can refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that
> facilitates the operation of such a Web site, or to certain specific wiki
> sites, including the computer science site (an original wiki),
> WikiWikiWeb, and on-line encyclopedias such as Wikipedia.
>
> Under the Matronics Email List Moniker, there is now a very nice
> List-specific Wiki available! It a place for Listers to put articles
> about any aviation topic that suits them. The purpose is to provide what
> the mailing lists do not: structure and persistence. The mailing lists
> are a fantastic resource to ask a question and get good (and bad and funny
> and annoying) answers. But once the question is asked and answered it is
> not in front of the List anymore. If a new person subscribes the next
> day, he/she does not see that information unless he/she goes to the
> trouble to search the archives, a hit or miss proposition. The result is
> that the same thread of conversation gets created and/or revisited. There
> are several things that happen as a result:
>
> 1. The person gets his or her question answered;
>
> 2. The information gets better as more people think about and answer
> the question;
>
> 3. The people who have seen the same question asked and answered get
> annoyed at seeing the same things over and over and over and ...
>
> So this is where the Wiki comes in. You know what questions you wanted
> answered. You may have asked or answered the question. You know the
> information is useful. So you put the information here, in the Matronics
> Email List Wiki!
>
> It doesn't matter that this information is 100% complete or correct. Just
> writing something creates a placeholder and makes useful information
> available immediately. It has the same immediacy as the mailing list but
> it has persistence and structure.
>
> But what if the information is incomplete or incorrect? No problem!
> Anyone else coming along can edit the article! If I write something and
> you discover something I have left out or stated incorrectly, you can fix
> it right then!
>
> So let's begin and make this the place for information about building,
> flying, maintaining, and understanding our airplanes.
>
> But what about whether something is "appropriate" or not? Don't worry.
> Write it down. Let the reader determine whether or not it is appropriate.
> If it is, he/she will read it. If it isn't, he/she won't. It's as simple
> as that.
>
> And when you do write that article you won't have to worry about whether
> some editor is going to decide whether or not to print it in a newsletter
> or whether the webmaster will have time to put it up on the web page.
>
> The last question I hear brewing out there is: if anyone can post
> anything, won't this just become a mass of garbage? Surprisingly, the
> answer is a resounding no. If you want proof, go visit the Wikipedia, a
> free-to-everyone encyclopedia written by whoever wants to write articles.
> The articles there are as good as anything I have read anywhere and anyone
> can add anything anytime they want to.
>
> So don't hesitate. Write it down. Put it here. It will never hurt
> anyone. The more information we get here, the more useful it will become
> to other people and the more information they will put here for YOU to
> use.
>
> Here's the URL to start (there are lots more bured under this starting
> place):
>
> http://www.matronics.com/wiki/index.php/Matronics:Community_Portal
>
>
> But please don't forget that this Wiki and all of the other Matronics
> Email List features are supported solely by YOUR Contributions!! November
> is List Fund Raiser month and there are lots of Free Gifts to be had with
> your qualifying Contribution. Please make a Contribution to support the
> continued operation and upgrade of these great services!!! Thank you!
>
> http://www.matronics.com/contribution
>
> Matt Dralle
> Matronics Email List Administrator
>
>
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