[Icehouse] IGDC Winter (and beyond)

[Melissa Parish]

*sigh*  Another "wiki vs. mailing list" discussion.  Personally, I'd rather
not re-hash all of that.  Let's keep this email thread about the IGDC, if
possible.

~ Melissa

On 10/4/07, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:25:45 -0400, miyu wrote:
> > As a side note to this, do you feel more discussion occurs on the list
> > rather than the wiki?  I find the format of a wiki difficult to maintain
> the
> > back and forth discussion that comes from a straight forum or a thread
> of
> > email.  As such, I rarely log into the wiki but participate in all the
> > discussion on the list.  Am I an anomaly?
>
> I've read all the IGDC discussion on the list, (I don't recall if I've
> actually contributed anything substantive to the issues being
> debated).
>
> I've rarely edited the wiki, and have almost never looked at any
> "talk" pages.
>
> I like wikis. They're great at what they do well, (the talk page is
> excellent for a random visitor to note something while reading, for
> example). But I don't think that actual discussion is something that
> wiki pages do well at all.
>
> So if you're an anomaly, then I am too.
>
> -Carl
>
> [*] One can argue benefits for wiki talk pages as well. One point in
> their favor is that people can participate in only those topics that
> they are interested in. At the same time this is also the biggest
> failing of wiki-based discussions: It's hard to make people aware of
> new, potentially interesting topics. So there's a tendency to form
> tiny subsets of the community around specific issues rather than
> engaging the community as a whole in the discussion.
>
> I greatly prefer a mailing list where everything comes by, and I can
> fairly easily ignore entire threads where they don't interest me.
>
>
>
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