“Just wondering if anyone
else has had to come up
with a solution for a similar
situation…”
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“I think someone at HMRC
once did a thing which was
similar but they left. Try
asking Jemima.”
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No content
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Sharing knowledge
online seems to take
one of two forms.
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the first is…
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Just stick it online and
will find it.
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Make things open
it makes them better.
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Not everything we want to
share is on the open web.
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Not everything on Google is
what we’re interested in.
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the second is…
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Gathered
Vetted
Monitored
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Chart from Intelligent Positioning showing Wikipedia's positions on Google for 1,000 randomly generated search terms:
It’s successful…
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… but it takes a lot of effort
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WikiGnome
– having desirable traits of an editor who
quietly attends to details of the encyclopedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiFauna
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Right now we use…
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Anything that takes too much effort won’t happen.
Anything that has a central bottle-neck will stall.
Anything that doesn’t make it’s contents really easily
discoverable won’t be of value.
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best of both worlds?
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Pinboard
social bookmarking?
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marx
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A play on the word “bookmarks”
#votelabour