New linux wiki up

[Christopher Lemire]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Amedee Van Gasse
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> On Tue, March 22, 2011 13:09, Christopher Lemire wrote:
>
>> Ok, so I forgot to bottom post one time by mistake. I'll have to get
>> mutt going with gmail again soon, so it does all that auto-magically.
>> I was just letting the ubuntu community know there's a helpful free
>> support channel and new wiki up. If you have anything that's not
>> negative to say, go ahead and reply.
>
> Chicken and egg problem in online communities: you won't get any new users
> (and possible contributors) if you don't have any interesting content
> already; and you won't get any interesting content if you don't have a
> large enough user (and contributor) base.
>
> How do you solve this? Possible solutions are:
> * seed your wiki with interesting content
> * open in private beta before going public
> * give incentives to active contributors
>
>
> --
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>

I have done that a bit. There's a 14 year old new to Linux. He's very
enthusiastic about learning. I teach him things in the the our irc
channel. He uses tomboy notes. I had him put his tomboy notes on the
wiki. They aren't perfect because his native language is Italian, but
his English is good enough that it makes sense even if it's not
exactly correct. I've gone and made a few modifications to what he
wrote, so that it is more clear for others who read it.

What other intensives can I give people besides money? The channel is
full of people very knowledgeable in some different aspect of computer
technology, but only one besides me has really wrote much on it. I
have tried a forum, a wiki, and a blog. The blog works best. I can
tell people are reading it because many have subscribed and it's
accessed a lot, but getting people to contribute back to a wiki or
forum hasn't been easy for me.

-- 
Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0

Gnu Privacy Guard Key Fingerprint = 3E1A 9103 EF3D 4885 6866  E9DE
C69F 18B3 E13B 0909

Web: http://linuxinnovations.blogspot.com
Jabber: recursivequicksort at jabber.org