---------------------------------------------------------- JabiruEngine-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sat 11/11/06: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 04:38 PM - Re: Wiki... (doncherie) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 04:38:37 PM PST US From: "doncherie" Subject: Re: JabiruEngine-List: Wiki... Please remove me from the list Regards Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Dralle" Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:12 PM Subject: JabiruEngine-List: Wiki... > > > 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 ] or [ wi .ki ] ) 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 > > > -- > >