We need a system to categorize our data like in your links Carol, and I agree that the current state of the wiki is pretty bad. But if you look at projects like Wiki-Commons, or free-reading, a wiki *can* be a lot better organized. We just don't have enough dedicated and informed people to fix the wiki. Information doesn't spread well yet.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 19, 2008 6:04 PM, Carol Lerche <<a href="mailto:cafl@msbit.com">cafl@msbit.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Seth, sorry for sending this once to you and then to the list. On reflection I felt it should go to the list as well. <div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br>Truly the wiki is NOT the best way to organize content such as the activities page.
<br><br>Yes, the countries will be the arbiters of taste as to what is shipped on each of their xo's but what about the next step?
<br><br></div>Here are examples of completely different way to organize this type of content (not very beautiful but quite a lot more functional than just a list):<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br><a href="http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix/cms-matrix?func=search" target="_blank">
http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix/cms-matrix?func=search</a><br>
<br>or<br><br><a href="http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/search" target="_blank">http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/search</a><br><br></div>I
think we need a search by age/grade level, subject matter, localization,
countries using, minimum build requirement, maturity/bugginess, tag (where an
app could have multiple tags that were optional and possibly
pejorative!)
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>The current activity page is pretty hard to use -- in the computer science/database world I think we could term it a "heap".<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Carol<br><br><br>
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