Originally Posted by
Bart
I hope the wiki and the forums will never become competitors. Both have their weaknesses and their advantages. So has the chatroom. I don't visit it very often, because English not being my native language, I'm out of my confort zone when I have to engage in instant conversation and make good sense at the same time. That's my problem of course, and I 'm sure many others find the chatroom very valuable. I happen to be good at learning a skill by digesting written information. Most technical things I know, I thought myself by reading. Other people need more interaction in their learning process, so they'll be better off with a forum format, or even with a personal tutor, as already pointed out in a previous post.
The Wiki's new. It is not very initiutive to contribute and edit over there, in comparison with how easy it to post on a thread. Learning the do's and dont's of a wiki is a challenge on it's own.
Maybe we should loose that meaningless (imho) reputation button and replace it with a "I wish to encourage the poster to add this to the wiki" button. Wiki's inherently have an encyclopedic kind of credibility. I think that asks for at least some responability to keep "barberstore" talk at a distance. Y'all know that I like to formulate hyphotesis and come up with experiments to check my theories. I would never add conclusions build on such a small empirical base to the wiki. In fact, one of my controversial ideas was included, and I'm not sure I'm happy about that. (although I felt honored, of course).
PS. If a forum moderator is reading along, could this thread be split into separate threads?
Bart.