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As Family History Library authors engage the wiki, they wonder how their authoring of wiki pages and paper publications will mesh. How will they add previous updates of research outlines to wiki pages and vice-versa? Is there a way to write content once and have it appear in both media? | As Family History Library authors engage the wiki, they wonder how their authoring of wiki pages and paper publications will mesh. How will they add previous updates of research outlines to wiki pages and vice-versa? Is there a way to write content once and have it appear in both media? | ||
A wiki iterates thousands of times faster than paper publications. It's a totally different paradigm. When an author wants to see whether a wiki article needs editing, he should check it. And when he checks it, he'd better be ready to edit it right away, because if he blinks, it might change. In a wiki there's no concept of an author "checking out" a document and preventing anyone else from writing on it for a week while he edits it. In a wiki, rather than overhauling a document from stem to stern, an author makes a small change to a section, then publishes, then makes another small change, then publishes again. | A wiki iterates thousands of times faster than paper publications. It's a totally different paradigm. When an author wants to see whether a wiki article needs editing, he should check it. And when he checks it, he'd better be ready to edit it right away, because if he blinks, it might change. In a wiki there's no concept of an author "checking out" a document and preventing anyone else from writing on it for a week while he edits it. In a wiki, rather than overhauling a document from stem to stern, an author makes a small change to a section, then publishes, then makes another small change, then publishes again. | ||
Wikipedia was developed in this way, and it works. You'd think a bunch of volunteers couldn't build a site which rivals the accuracy of Encyclopedia Britannica, but they've done it. Many eyeballs make any bug shallow. We are smarter than me. | |||
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