I found the NZ goverment post extra interesting. Maybe there is a guide here for how Mr Rudd can address some of the negative feedback from his 2020 gabfest. (I also found the New Zealand Police Act Wiki link is broken and should be -
http://www.policeact.govt.nz/wiki/ )
However, I have never seriously looked at implementing one. I was fascinated to find, as I dug into the subject and viewed many Wiki's, that I clearly considered reliable and accurate, that my mindset was "this would not work". I seemed to have lots of worries that fundamentally boiled down to - the effort of keeping it accurate would be too large. This despite the many references I found that highlighted the many tools that were in place to make the job easy, plus the evidence in front of my eyes that it works.
Slowly, I realised that I was thinking more of putting up a subject that I considered I knew about and allowing others to edit it. I realised this is more what a blog is about. Thus week one got a little clearer.
As I thought about it a little more I realised that the value of a Wiki arises from the pooling of knowledge & information in areas where knowledge & information is diverse and fragmented; where no one individual has the total picture.
So synergy is at its core.
In these circumstances the effort involved in keeping the integrity of the production is rewarded (and balanced) by the value gained.
I would expect also that to retain value there will need to be a defined process for resolving conflicts. In some fields, especially where knowledge is still evolving, there will be bodies of thought that are opposed to each other. A clear, well understood mechanism for managing this must be in place as by definition they cannot yet be resolved. A quick search showed that there has actually been a conference & set of papers on this. (but not being a librarian I wasn't able to get to the details)
| "He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia | ||
Source  | Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems | |
ROLLYO
This was less than the expected experience.
My expectation was that it would search the websites I specified and only those. I tried it with a very restricted base so I would be able to check its results. I choose my blog and it couldn't even find it, let alone something in my blog. Okay so a blog is not technically a web site so back to the drawing board.
So then I searched my personal web site and found I couldn't get it to just search my web site it insisted on adding the rest of the web and I could find out how to get rid of it. Anyway, it did find it and returned the entries I expected. Here it is
http://rollyo.com/ibpservice/ibpservice/
give it a try.
Another thing I found annoying was that it gave no indication of the number of hits. the reason for this is that when I search for something common it is handy to know if I have only a few pages of hits; then I will look at them all to find the obscure ones. If I have 30 pages then 1 pages is sufficient before I tighten the search criteria.
And I could not find a way to have it start in a new tag.
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