Thread: Steve Pavlina Community Wiki (idea)

A personal development wiki is a nice idea in general. I wonder if a popular one already exists? Google doesn't seem to imply so. But anyway, I wasn't interested in creating a PD wiki. I was interested in possibly bringing the whole community to another level, so to speak. I know the old wiki I mentioned did just that. It gave everyone a common goal to work on besides conversation. So it's a benefit for the community, not really...

Quote: Originally Posted by Daffy Duck I've already talked to Steve about it. I was actually never imagining it as being a part of the official site, or under Steve's responsibility to take care of. I could have handled the technical aspect of it. Oh, what did Steve say about it?

Yes, google wave is really a good tool for such a purpose. Just choose a tag and get going.

I don't really see a point in this.

I'd keep in mind that personal development might be a more controversial topic than video gaming. That is, I would put special attention on supporting people to understand the concept of power with, co-creating etc. before they can post. In the wikis I know that "work", people's focus really is on contributing to something bigger than themselves. In the ones where it doesn't work so well, it seems to be about...

Good idea! I would be up for it and I would be glad to contribute with what I can. As for the recipe, isn't that pretty much what Wikipedia does? I know there are moderators there, but there, anyone can write or change stuff, so the danger is also much higher. I think this would work.

Sounds a fun idea

Daffy Duck - I've been thinking about this (read it earlier today). I don't know if I'd be interested in a wiki, it feels a bit removed from the forums to me. It feels weird to set up a place to talk about the forums (as opposed to just doing things here, for example.) BUT! This and another post I saw sparked an idea... What about phone meetings? I *think* there may be places to get free (?) conference call type numbers on line....

I'm not so sure what a wiki page would do for these things. after all, everyone here generally has their own opinions on the various topics at hand which would then lead to sparse static content, or at least, many pages would find themselves holding a controversial disclaimer. I think joyfulgrowth makes a good point in this respect.

Quote: Originally Posted by Daffy Duck Thanks for the feedback everyone. I don't think I'll further pursue this idea for now, as it seems there isn't a strong interest. When I envision it in my head, it is a great resource for the forum. Steve mentioned that future versions of the vBulletin forum have a wiki built-in, so maybe the idea will take off then. Or maybe not. We should talk him into buying the blog add-on for...