ways of sharing information between wikis

Micropayments

  • There are justifiable differences between wikis:
    • Expertise-centric
    • Specialization
    • Not invented here
    • Localization & customization
    • Commercial endeavours
    • Pedagogy
    • Advocacy
    • Policy differences
    • Value differences
    • so there are good reasons wikis may want to be separate
  • Cross wiki content
    • What links here from anywhere
    • talk page messaging
    • user pages
    • watchlist RSS / single view
    • cross wiki search
    • API tools
      • Cross-wiki bots
  • Merging and Synching
    • have multiple branches for single wiki page - "please resolve conflicts by clicking the colored text"
    • This allows wiki's with similar pages to merge changes back and forth
  • Objections
    • Spam
      • Wikis have a track record
      • Trust, block if abuse
    • Considered advertising
      • Emphasize free content policy
      • wikis are like Namespaces
    • Encourages Forking
      • encourages merging
  • Closing statement: Organizations companies & brand names are only tools to achieve Free Education For All - nice
  • Commercial wikis are fine so long as they are open content and work with the same wiki value system


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