Wiki and Process
From RCC 2007
What else can be done besides just the wikiway? Debate at Wikipedia between Process/anti-process.
On CommunityWiki, we're experimenting with "PageMaintainer" - a new role in which the passionate person who puts forth a page can take it upon themselves to maintain it and be the "contact person" for that page.
Establishing governance that's accepted by the community (MeatballWiki:CommunityDoesNotAgree)
NPOV can be problematic b/c it lets potentially very negative characters have friends advocate for them and say they can't be criticized.
Levels of governance - core community makes guidelines that people at other levels tacitly or actively agree to by participation on the wiki, or collaboration on refining the guidelines.
Profound thing about wiki is there is not forced process that must be followed all the time. A process might take hold but variants and changes to the process can take hold just as easily as the original process.
Any set of relationships imaginable can be established and processes can be built around that. Is this similar to a dating site?
Does the interface drive how it's used, or do uses drive the interface? Does the interface need to specifically provide the facility to do something in order for people to do that something?
The Art of Hosting, Open Space, Robert's Rules of Order
Can these ideas for guiding a conversation be applied to the wiki? How?
The Art of Harvesting: figuring out what you want to come out, before your start.
"We will know we have done something if..." When you're doing something brand new, is it possible to know what measurement can be used to show a positive outcome?
When you want the recent changes you have to go back - is there a way to move more fluidly through the history of a page? Make a recent changes page or RSS feed of selected pages.
Beyond Yes - designed around making community decisions and deciding go/no go on a project.
Open Source collection of agreements, such as CommunityWikiBylaws, the Debian governance system, .. Scale is important, none of these "scale." Things work very differently at different scales.
MeatballWiki is invaluable for understanding and growing communities.
