blogs, forums and content creation

[Chris Watkins]

BlogArticles looks interesting. After weighing it up, I believe it's unsuitable for Appropedia,


An example of it at work is at: http://green.wikia.com/wiki/Blog:Recent_posts

Upside:

• For users who are comfortable with a blog or forum interface, this could make it easier to add content.
  
• Users could be encouraged to tag their posts by topic. Then new content could then be found and used in the main wiki pages.

Downside:

•  If we invite opinion in the form of blog posts, it's hard to justify deleting bad opinions - and yet with our policy of rigor, we don't want nonsense and bad advice on the wiki. Bad or wrong ideas can be deleted from wiki pages, which is a great strength of wikis.
• If categories are used for tagging, we our categories may be cluttered by opinion pieces. 
• We don't even port most of the content we already have access to, so adding more of doubtful quantity isn't a big step forward.
  

However, I'm still interested in exploring ways of encouraging contributions. One related idea is to get forums to use a compatible license, so we can use their forum posts with attribution.

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Chris Watkins

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