What is success for a wiki?

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or, what does a wiki want to do in life?

What is success for a wiki?

hartnell 1209237177|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

What is success for a wiki?

— Shawn

Re: What is success for a wiki?

hartnell 1209237327|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

My answer is : information is transferred.

I'm really big into education. Sure, the money is nice, but in the end it comes down to these things?

• Have I learned anything myself?
• Have I organized and written that down for other people to learn?
• Are people able to learn from my wikis?

If the answer is yes… then I consider a wiki successful. This does not apply to my blatant fan wikis that I've created. :)

— Shawn

Re: What is success for a wiki?

NDP IB Admin 1214257413|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

That sounds about right. Many of the most obviously successful wikis (Wikipedia) are all about storing and sharing information. Everything else is secondary.

Re: What is success for a wiki?

K5SYN 1219463431|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

While I believe that you are correct, it seems to be a shortcoming that information accuracy is secondary to getting it shared. Still, this seems a better system than any other!