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It is a rare community that has even one obsessive wiki admin/contributor, let alone the half dozen or more that are needed to make a successful wiki. | It is a rare community that has even one obsessive wiki admin/contributor, let alone the half dozen or more that are needed to make a successful wiki. | ||
== How successful wikis started == | |||
* [[Wikipedia]] started as a commercial effort, only later being made a non-profit.{{expand}} | |||
* [[wikiHow:|wikiHow]] is commercially operated, with paid staff. | |||
* [[Appropedia]] has a core of a number of people who work on the site daily, and academics who have their students (a large number in total) engaged with creating content on Appropedia (see [[Appropedia:Learning institutions on Appropedia]]). | |||
== Think globally - collaborate don't compete == | == Think globally - collaborate don't compete == |
Revision as of 19:07, 23 December 2009
It's easy to set up a wiki installation on a web site.
It's hard - much more difficult than you probably think - to take the next steps of:
- protecting from spam and vandalism
- continuing to develop the site
- finding content
- creating community
- managing the content for quality and structure
These things take a huge amount of collective work.
It is a rare community that has even one obsessive wiki admin/contributor, let alone the half dozen or more that are needed to make a successful wiki.
How successful wikis started
- Wikipedia started as a commercial effort, only later being made a non-profit.
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- wikiHow is commercially operated, with paid staff.
- Appropedia has a core of a number of people who work on the site daily, and academics who have their students (a large number in total) engaged with creating content on Appropedia (see Appropedia:Learning institutions on Appropedia).
Think globally - collaborate don't compete
Collaboration and competition are both powerful creative forces in nature and society. They each have their place - but the nature of wikis is radical collaboration.
See Permaculture wiki #Think globally: A call to collaboration
See also Green wiki, Appropriate technology wiki and Wiki synergy.