Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Document Library: zero response! (was "call for MembershipPolicies")

[Michael Barrett (mbarrett]

Andrew,
In an unrelated field - that of writing code and programming for a railroad 
simulator - exactly the same thing occured.  For the railroad simulator 
there is a conspicuous lack of available programming documentation, but 
there exists a large but very fragmented body of knowledge in the hands of a 
substantial number of railroad simulator enthusiasts.  A proposal was made 
to make a wiki compendium of this knowledge.   Many hailed the idea as 
great - but nobody contributed.
Is there something cyber-sociological here (to coin a word)?   Does sharing 
with a person provide some reward that sharing with a faceless wiki does 
not?

Michael Barrett
Shadowlake Village
Blacksburg, VA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Netherton" <andrewnetherton [at] gmail.com>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:37 PM
Subject: [C-L]_ Document Library: zero response! (was "call for 
MembershipPolicies")


> Hello,
>
> Since my call for Membership Policies for the CohoWiki Document
> Library (http://wiki.cohousing.org/index.php?title=Document_Library)
> just over a week ago, I have had exactly zero responses to my request.
> The wiki has also remained unaltered from when I last touched it.  No
> Membership Policies have been submitted, either through me or directly
> to the CohoWiki.  I am somewhat disappointed by this result, and would
> like to put for the question: WHY has there been no response?