On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 04:39:47PM -0500, Matthew Weymar wrote:
I'm kind of an accidental tourist here, but it seems like this is something that could be extended / automated further in such a way that you could very easily roll out *lots* of cities. This might very well create the kind of buzz that would attract end users, not to mention administrator-, and developer-types. "Build it, and they may come...."
This is true, but I'm not willing to place guides out there with no administrator, because then they become spamtraps rather than actual usable wikis. A wiki requires an active administrator in order to prevent it from falling into spam, and I'm not willing to take on that role for more than a few guides -- Boston sucks up enough of my time without any other things.
Is this not consistent w/ OG's (immediate?) goals?... Do your legal concerns kick in here?...
My concerns are definitely not legal, but pragmatic: I can't keep up with 17 different guides, adding new information, marketing, and making sure that they don't fall to spammers. I'd rather not see guides become huge sources of spam on the web, and as such, I'm unwilling to simply put the guides "out there" without an active maintainer taking an interest in the guide.
Maintaining a guide is a big job. Most people think that wikis make documentation easier, but really, there's a lot more to it than that, and I'm not about to take on much more on my plate. I'll play sysadmin, but I won't play guide admin.