Combining Wikis and forums

Zbigniew from Wiki Wednesday has some interesting ideas about combining wikis and forums. A bit mad Combining Wikis and forums icon surprised , 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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3 Responses to Combining Wikis and forums

  1. Andy Roberts says:

    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.

  2. Ferdinand Juric says:

    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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