A rather perceptive post, forwarded in full from the london.pm discussion.

Kake

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From: Simon Wilcox essuu@ourshack.com Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:07:15 +0100 (BST) To: london.pm@london.pm.org.realprogrammers.com Subject: Re: Call for Comments - OpenGuides and usability

On 22 Oct 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

There are four kinds of people regarding Wikis:

I would argue that the technology is irrelevant, There are two kinds of people who might interact with Open Guide:

1. Consumers

2. Producers

A successful site will make it easy for consumers to consume and producers to produce. There will always be many more consumers than producers. A *really* successful site will be able to convert consumers into producers.

Arguably Open Guide succeeds at none of these things as it only really makes it easy for *producers* to consume as too much pre-knowledge is required to understand and navigate the site and a lot of the early information is aimed at producers.

But then, I guess it depends on what you define as "successful". Perhaps we should ask that question - how will we know when Open Guide to London is a success ?

Simon.

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