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
- 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
- Spam
- 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