On Jan 14, 2006, at 1:33 AM, Dave Pooser wrote:

>> ...but the Wikibook is in awful need of repair.
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_//_Mac_OS_X_Server
>>
>> Anyone want to step up to the plate?
>
> Trying to keep any sort of publicly-editable wiki complete and free of
> errors seems as practical as trying to bail out Lake Michigan.  
> Sturgeon's
> Law applies to people, too-- and I'm pretty sure that the Sturgeon's
> Internet Corollary should read "The Internet proves Sturgeon was an
> optimist."

I would have agreed until I experienced it. Wikipedia is five years  
old, has more than 900,000 entries in the English version, and is  
clearly accelerating:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/PlotsPngUsageVisits.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

If you look up any five randomly-chosen persons, places, or things,  
I'll bet you'll find extremely informative articles on four or more  
likely five of them.

The secret of the wiki is that a vandal simply doesn't have as much  
motivation as an editor. In the long run, there are going to be a lot  
more editors spending a lot more time on the wiki than there are  
vandals. And people who don't know much about a subject tend to defer  
to those who know more. When several know more, they tend to  
collaborate more than compete. Sounds hokey, but just look at the  
results. If it didn't work, Wikipedia wouldn't be the great treasure  
trove it has so rapidly become.

Plenty of techie wikis are developing pretty rapidly too. One of my  
favorites:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/

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