Getting Personal with PickWiki

[Rex Gozar]

I'm on a campaign to get every Pick developer to use PickWiki. Why?
Because I know that there's a wealth of technical knowledge out there
that would benefit the entire Pick community. But it's stupid for me
to think that you brilliant technical innovators would contribute your
precious time and effort purely for the betterment of mankind, nor for
the sake of promoting the database we all know and love.

Then I had a new thought... (blatant attempt to get people the visit
the site)

http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Getting_Personal_With_PickWiki

[Kevin Powick]

On Jul 21, 10:05 am, Rex Gozar <rgo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Then I had a new thought... (blatant attempt to get people the visit
> the site)

Your campaign must be working and overloading the site with visitors
because it is slooowwww for me.

--
Kevin Powick

[GlenB]

I commend your efforts. I've got lots of dead soldiers here from similar
previous battles, but I'll try to contribute what I can when I can. I still
haven't even completed the mission statement for the MV developer's
association! Soon... I hope.

BTW.. I set the channel web site for #pick on irc.freenode.net to
http://pickwiki.com I founded it a while back and I don't even hang around
much anymore! I've been doing better about stopping by, though.

GlenB

"Rex Gozar" <rgo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:e54531f7-e2c8-451a...@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...

[Rex Gozar]

It's been a while since I've registered as a PickWiki user, so I
forgot that the "administrator" password is required in order to get
"edit" privileges; it's the first (given) name of the guy our database
is named after.

I've added this hint to the article as well.

http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Getting_Personal_With_PickWiki

[mdsi2000]

Rex,
Glen is so right about those dead solders. I'm one of those dead
solders and have been reincarnated into a regular programmer. Back in
the mid 90's I had a collection of utilities and tips, including a few
from Glen, to publish on a newsletter. My hope was to create a
depository (not to be confused with a suppository. lol) of all these
utilities and tips, but lack of time and collaboration from others the
project dropped. I was spending too much time on it (without getting
compensated) and not focusing on my "real" day time job. Late nights,
long weekend and time pressure forced me to abandon it.

One suggestion to spread the website is to have a link at the bottom
of all emails sent by mv programmers.

Peter G

[Rex Gozar]

I don't see this as a battle. I see it as an opportunity. I'm sure
that there are many Pick developers that have never considered putting
their own personal content (albeit Pick related) on PickWiki.

Then again, they could just as easily put the same content on their
FaceBook or MySpace pages -- and who am I to say they shouldn't?

To me, it's not a contribution or collaboration issue. It's about the
individual user finding personal value *using* PickWiki in a way
that's meaningful to them.

rex