Hi Brian - I agree with your concern about the editing of summaries; perhaps a system can be created whereas the moderator/facilitator of a given subject can propose a draft of a summary, open it for discussion, suggestions and changes, and then "lock it up" (password protect) as the final agreed-to summary. If someone wants to challenge or change that summary in the future, it can be done, but the process would begin over again - the proposed change would be debated and if it had consistent support, integrated into the earlier summary as a amended change.
I hope someone takes you up on your offer to help on the technical side, marty j -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Taylor Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MF MoQ BBS/Community I think there are issues for the staticness of the proposed Wiki plan. If anyone is able to edit or create any page, it seems to me like this would be a wholly dynamic process. If someone puts a summary of some topic up, the summary could be wholly edited and reworked to say something completely different than what was originally intended. Although there's nothing wrong with expressing the varying opinions, I feel a little uneasy about just letting anyone change the expressed opinions of someone else. A summary or any other post will never be objective, and letting it be edited and reworked and otherwise contributed to would only confuse the original ideas expressed (in my opinion). I think that in order for this idea to work, a very precise hierarchy of actions should be laid out. A step-by-step process, or perhaps working through phases, to contributing to the MF topic at hand. I don't know what this would be, as we would first have to decide what the overall purpose of this endeavor would be (same as MF, just try to be more static / summarize MD discussions / whatever comes up like in MD / etc.). On the technical aspects of getting this up and running, I would love to help. I'm experienced with just about every form of web programming and web related programs and activities. I've got my own little personal server (http://jodokaast.dyndns.org/) that I do various things with which could have worked for the idea presented except for the issues of speed. This server is not on a very fast connection at all, or else I'd donate it in an instant. If a suitable host is found, I'd be more than happy to work on and maintain the technical aspects of it all. Brian _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
