Combining Wikis and forums

Posted by Andy Roberts on 15/8/07 • Categorized as Wiki, wikiwed

Zbigniew from Wiki Wednesday has some interesting ideas about combining wikis and forums. A bit mad , but very interesting!

In Brudnopis: Wikis and fora – other ideas

For example, the suggestion to allow some wiki functionality in the middle of threaded discussions, which to me seems like a license to rewrite history, except that there would be revision control over the various versions of a conversation.

‘overwrite’ a part of the conversation with a summary that would be a wiki page, editable by all the participants in the overwritten part of the conversation with the expectation that it will contain a consensus between them on what was written, the overwritten text could be available behind a link

I don’t warm to the prospect of ever having to take part in such a consensus, in fact I’m strangely attached to the notion of leaving archived conversations to stand where they took place but it strikes me this technique could become a useful part of the workflow in a close working team or managed community.

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Stan Garfield
August 22, 2007 • 5:47 pm

Hi, Andy.

I linked to this post from my blog at http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/garfield/archive/2007/08/22/4233.html

Regards,
Stan

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Ferdinand Juric
January 6, 2008 • 12:14 am

This is really interesting idea if I understood it correctly it would be possible to alter discussion retrospectively, supplement it with new ideas, information. This will indeed change the whole meaning of forum.

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Andy Roberts
January 6, 2008 • 12:42 am

That’s correct. Maybe it’s analagous to the concept of harvesting conversation “flows” to create knowledge stores, or refactoring emergent brainstorming ideas as they mature, to make documents.

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