I couldn't help noticing the use of the passive voice in the last
sentence... :) Which is the real problem: wikis are an SEP, a
Somebody-Else's-Problem. Emails are not.
(And this interesting meta-conversation would never have happened on a
wiki.)
On 14/02/2014 09:15, George Sheldrick wrote:
> I think that more people read wikis than contribute to them, so this
> 'experiment' (see below) is
> a little biased. On the other hand, it is often easier to put a
> question to CCP4bb than to search
> for the answer in wikis and other documentation, however well
> organized they are.
>
> Kay: can you see how often your XDS wiki (for example) is accessed?
>
> The small number of different contributors to a wiki is however a
> problem. Replying to an email
> is something that has to be done almost immediately and reaches
> instantly a large audience.
> Making a contribution to a wiki lacks the urgency and can be put off
> for a few weeks, and does
> not reward the contributor with immediate feedback or lead to
> controversial discussions.
>
> Perhaps someone should make a list of the questions most frequently
> asked on CCP4bb and
> the most helpful replies that they generated. This could even be made
> into a wiki.
>
> George
>
>
> On 02/14/2014 09:15 AM, Frank von Delft wrote:
>> Seems it's worth thinking about this as an experiment that has
>> actually been done: BB and wiki have been available in parallel for
>> many years now; so where has all the activity happened, where do
>> people go for information - and more to the point, where are other
>> people happy to volunteer information?
>>
>> According to what you say, the experiment has a clear outcome.
>>
>> Even crystallographers are social beings, and thrive on interaction.
>> Wikis don't interact.
>>
>> I should add I'm not at all clear what problem is being addressed
>> here: if I get an email I don't want to read, I make a tiny
>> hand-movement (= hit delete) and it vanishes forever. Are people
>> suggesting we abandon an empirically proven mechanism merely to save
>> me the need for this tiny hand-movement?
>>
>> phx
>>
>
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