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Re: Clarinet wiki?

Author: rsholmes
Date: 2007-08-01 02:05

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A BBoard doesn't pretend to be an authority on anything. A wiki does.

I certainly have never had either of those impressions. Some bboards do not try to be authoritative, and some wikis do, but in the end both are simply tools to be used or abused according to the needs and whims of their users.

Whatever path one takes, best to be sure it's one that doesn't depend on one or two or three people putting heart and soul into it, only to founder and atrophy if they move on to other things.

Wikis are great if the users are cooperative. When they start getting competitive, when feuds break out... it gets ugly. I've stopped contributing to Wikipedia because I've found myself getting too emotionally involved when others lay waste to my efforts. So I've gotten kind of jaundiced about wikis. But definitely having easily navigated, well written, cohesive articles about clarinet topics of interest would be far better than having to trawl through this bboard's archives looking for answers, as we do now.

One thing I find very odd about the OP's proposal:

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What I have in mind, then is a limited editing access wiki using the expertise found on this BBoard and maybe the Klarinet list as well. Anyone could view it on the internet, but only you folks could contribute.

Membership in this bboard and the Klarinet list is a very odd criterion, it seems to me, for dividing people allowed to contribute from people who are not. After all, anyone in the world can register here or on the Klarinet list, while I'm sure plenty of people with good expertise do not.

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