SPUG: SPUGwiki Needs Photos, etc.

[Ben Reser]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:02:38AM -0700, SPUG-list-owner wrote:
> My concern is that in lulls between "buffy" discussions, the
> London.pm folks might notice that only 7 alleged SPUGsters were
> sufficiently conscious to make MemberPages for themselves on our
> Wiki Site, which might lead to calls for a recount of the last
> PUG census, with "hanging chad" members excluded! 8-}

Yeah the problem is now everyone is doing the Wiki thing and saying "Hey
come make a page here."  I already have a home page.  I barely have time
to maintain it.  Why would I want to make another page that I won't have
time to maintain?

Frankly, I think the better thing to do is:
a) Realize that the wiki is not the only way to participate.
b) Accept that it is new and will take time to ramp up.
c) Rather than encouraging people to post pictures of their dog fluffy,
have them post useful and interesting things that relate to the
group.  This will take longer to happen, but as people come up with
things that are useful and interesting asking them to spend the time to
post it on the wiki is likely to be far more fruitful than asking people
to duplicate their personal home pages.

Besides what can Londom.pm talk about?  They don't even have a wiki yet.
At least I can't find any mention of it on their page.  ;)

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