Comments on: Evolving Wikis http://dorai.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/evolving-wikis/ Knowledge Spiral - Recursive Learning, Sharing Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:53:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: dorai http://dorai.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/evolving-wikis/#comment-1280 dorai Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:46:30 +0000 https://dorai.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/evolving-wikis/#comment-1280 Hi Neueste, Thanks. Is that the proper way to address you? Please correct me if it is not right. I agree. I think it takes certain maturity to recognize that knowledge grows when shared. Doug Engelbart often talks about Dynamic Knowledge Repository and how sharing the current knowledge is the only way to handle problems whose complexity is increasing faster than humanity's ability to solve them. -- Dorai Hi Neueste,
Thanks. Is that the proper way to address you? Please correct me if it is not right.

I agree. I think it takes certain maturity to recognize that knowledge grows when shared. Doug Engelbart often talks about Dynamic Knowledge Repository and how sharing the current knowledge is the only way to handle problems whose complexity is increasing faster than humanity’s ability to solve them.

– Dorai

]]> By: ragsix9 http://dorai.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/evolving-wikis/#comment-1252 ragsix9 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:32:20 +0000 https://dorai.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/evolving-wikis/#comment-1252 Hello, dorai, I like your article on wikis. I regard wikis as social software. After mere html editors, graphical web designers and content management systems, wikis are the fourth generation of web publishing. Wikipedia (you name it) is indeed an interesting project as it reveals the power of cooperation when there is no constraints of monetary profits but all the freedom knowledge needs to grow and spread. Universities have been working the same way... Wikis in general and Wikipedia in special promote a spirit of open interchange of knowledge that is only recently getting accepted in software (although it has been there from the very beginning): The spirit of open source and free software. Mozilla is maybe one of the most popular exsamples for free software. Personally I regard this model of sharing knowledge the only valid approach to face the future. Transparancy and sustainability are an apt way to keep the knowledge of today for the next generation. This is not saying that software developers (or scientists) shouldn't get paid. But they should rather be valued for the services and progresses they achieve than for a product. The current model makes developers lock away the treasure of their knowledge from the public until the whole lot gets outdated and worthless. Hello, dorai,

I like your article on wikis. I regard wikis as social software. After mere html editors, graphical web designers and content management systems, wikis are the fourth generation of web publishing.

Wikipedia (you name it) is indeed an interesting project as it reveals the power of cooperation when there is no constraints of monetary profits but all the freedom knowledge needs to grow and spread. Universities have been working the same way…

Wikis in general and Wikipedia in special promote a spirit of open interchange of knowledge that is only recently getting accepted in software (although it has been there from the very beginning): The spirit of open source and free software. Mozilla is maybe one of the most popular exsamples for free software. Personally I regard this model of sharing knowledge the only valid approach to face the future. Transparancy and sustainability are an apt way to keep the knowledge of today for the next generation.

This is not saying that software developers (or scientists) shouldn’t get paid. But they should rather be valued for the services and progresses they achieve than for a product. The current model makes developers lock away the treasure of their knowledge from the public until the whole lot gets outdated and worthless.

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