Re: Experimental Wiki at midrange.com

[Mike Wills <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

I disagree. You are dealing with what I consider a generic source for 
information. Do they give code examples on how to avoid using MOVE in /free 
code? Do they explain the nitty-gritty on using OS/400 APIs in RPG? I think 
we can focus more on the details in the Wiki than Wikipedia can. Besides, 
Wikipedia stuff is scattered all over the site, here everything is iSeries. 

On 5/24/05, Eric Lehti with CPU <president@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> David,
> I admire your energy and willingness to set up 
> wiki.midrange.com<http://wiki.midrange.com>, 
> however.
> I offer these comments, though.
> 
> - Why set up a wiki that will essentially duplicate the work and efforts 
> of
> the existing wiki at en.wikipedia.org <http://en.wikipedia.org>?
> - Wikipedia already has an incredible amount of iSeries-specific content
> that a group of volunteers has been working on.
> - Any content that we might add to 
> wiki.midrange.com<http://wiki.midrange.com>will merely duplicate
> what wikipedia already has (or should soon have).
> - Wikipedia.org <http://Wikipedia.org> already has an overwhelming market 
> share and mind share.
> Why encourage midrange people to work on an alternative encyclopedia?
> - Many of the items that people will want to link to already have 
> extensive
> listings in wikipedia.org <http://wikipedia.org>.
> - We iSeries professionals do not live an insular life, isolated on an
> island. We should take advantage of the tools and resources that dedicated
> people in other disciplines (e.g. wikipedia volunteers) have already done.
> 
> EricL
>