It just so happens that my job in RL includes thinking about how communities use things such as mailing lists (MLs), forums, and newsletters/journals. I have always preferred MLs to forums. Until now. I really like the CZ forum system. And I also like the flexibility of using both systems.
And now with Anthony's summary [1] I got an idea of how those systems play with the concept of a newsletter/journal. If someone were to play "journalist" by capturing highlights from the list and the forum, citing original postings as sources, the burden for writing articles can be distributed much as it is in a wiki. That would be the more old-fashioned approach, though. Another way (not the only way , but an option some may choose to use sometimes) to generate content for a journal would be to compose articles in a wiki. Authors would decide among themselves how to give credit, e.g. list people as playing one of two main roles for any given article: author or editor. Then the end product (an individual article) is something they all put their names on. Just food for thought. <>< Tim [1] https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-l/2006-October/000617.html _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
