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Daniel D Jones · 04 Jul 2006, 12:10 · from 2006-July.txt.gz

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From: ddjones at riddlemaster.org (Daniel D Jones)
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 08:10:38 -0400
Subject: (urth) Wiki
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On Monday 03 July 2006 11:16, Adam Stephanides wrote:
> In general it's still not clear to me what the advantages are of a wiki
> over, say, an FAQ or FAQs combined with a message board. In fact, I would
> think a priori that a wiki would be a poor format for dealing with Wolfe,
> about whose work there is so little agreement. But I could well be wrong;
> it might help if I could see an example of a wiki which successfully does
> what you're expecting from a Wolfe wiki.

It's vastly different subject matter but a chain of events just led me to the 
Wikipedia article for a Rock band called Tool.  Take a look at that article, 
particularly section 3, called "Arguments about genre and categorization."  I 
don't see why articles on various aspects of Wolfe's work couldn't be 
similarly laid out.

http://tinyurl.com/kdqjr

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