This is the talk page for discussing the FortForecast.WikiFederation article.
Community-building: pitfalls, analysis, etc.
- SisterSites (archived) (see the section on Why) and WhyIsNowClosed (archived) on WikiWikiWeb
- An interesting mini-cased-study on the failures of community-building. (See also: http://web.archive.org/web/20060505025453/http://clublet.com:80/c/c/why?WhyWouldOneBother (archived))
- CommunityMayNotScale (archived) on MeatballWiki
A key quote:
I am not concerned with the TechnologySolution - the less visible that is (to the User like me) the better. The "big idea" that has me excited is to combine, within a community both a Collaboration Medium (the "Wiki") and a distinct CommunicationChannel for relationships. This serves as new structural pattern that produces synergy between recognized PersonalSpace? (which is underdeveloped) as distinct from the OpenSpace (which is the Wiki that is a well structured NameSpace) where everyone is assembled for collaboration. The PersonalSpace? at the SolaRoofWiki is more than a HomePage; it is more than a FrontLawn; it is a personal website, taht can include my pages, my topics and my projects where we work individually or in teams and where visitors can incidentally contribute to our personal work. The OpenSpace is the opposite; it is not only the wiki as a whole but all the individual topics that are like ongoing conferences and the linked topics that are like seminars with natural leaders and we are free to walk in and out of all these meeting rooms as we like (guaranteed to miss none of the action because it is constantly documented).
[emphasis added]
- TidalWiki (archived) on WikiWikiWeb
- A proposed moderation/review scheme for wiki contributions
- EnlargeSpace (archived) on MeatballWiki
- Taking advantage, in various ways, of the scalable nature of virtual "spaces" in order to mitigate certain community scaling problems
