Re-Re-Reminder to myself of how much of society, or market share, one needs :
“Why is podcasting still open after over 20 years? Drumroll please. The answer: there are enough users who understand how it is supposed to work. They expect to be able to listen to any podcast anywhere they want.
Most probably don’t understand why they have this ability, about the history and technology design that made it possible, but they understand that they have the ability. And it doesn’t have to be all of them or even most of them, just enough of them, whatever that means.”
I recognize your and Jay Rosen’s VFN ideas in Wikipedia’s NPOV policy.
I don’t know if NPOV is crippling Wikipedia, but it goes a long way to excluding one’s opinions which are often found on blogs or silos instead.
Paradoxically, for an “open” website “which anyone can edit” then, this “Neutral Point of View” has been one of the things which make Wikis in general, and Wikipedia in particular, a type of closed Silo.
Q. 3. When are Comments on a Blog equivalent to Edits on a Wiki page?
Some blogs have comments, some do not.
Some Blog allow public commenting on a post by post basis.
Wiki edits sometimes are minor and are made without a summary comment.
Other times, the comment explaining why a wiki page has been edited is much, much longer than the edit itself.
By observing and borrowing from the Blog world’s prior art, I’ve been trying to understand when wiki pages should have Comments turned ON for individual wiki pages and when they should not.
Any thoughts?
Lastly, to lighten things up, in this election year, a timely debate about Blogs vs Wikis: