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It's done. I put it in General Finance because it's more likely to be seen there. Once it's off the front page, I'll move it to Admin.
Barry, if you want to publish a note at Bogleheads now, either in private or public, feel free.
Barry, if you want to publish a note at Bogleheads now, either in private or public, feel free.
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Congratulations! I will post an announcement on the bogleshead forum and with our small wiki staff. I would greatly appreciate any of you who can post on the bogleheads to post a comment or two on my announcement post.Norbert Schlenker wrote:It's done. I put it in General Finance because it's more likely to be seen there. Once it's off the front page, I'll move it to Admin.
Barry, if you want to publish a note at Bogleheads now, either in private or public, feel free.
Here is my post:
ANNOUNCEMENT: Webring Launches finiki.
[edit: added link to post]
thanks,
Barry
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I've locked it as an announcement so that it says on the front page on the basis that nobody reads Admin. Eventually, we'll move it but I think not yet.The Management wrote:It's done. I put it in General Finance because it's more likely to be seen there. Once it's off the front page, I'll move it to Admin.
Nope. It's open to anyone, including blonde, by request. However, one reference to guiding principles, harpoonists, or anyone of the usual claptrap and the editor's card gets pulled.The Management wrote:I think we want some consistent application criteria for editors. Earlier I suggested a bright line based on number of posts outside Soap Box & Admin. We have to be a little more flexible than that, e.g. I see no point in letting blonde edit.
I'm betwixt and between on this one. I think unhidden but opening it now might lead to all kinds of peripheral and detracting kibbitzing. Why don't we see what kind of commentary the announcement generates? If none , then pull back the read only curtain. If constructive , then pull back the read only curtain.Shakespeare wrote:Should the finiki forum be unhidden but read only if you're an editor?
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Set up Norm. He's volunteered to do the efficient market entry.
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Let's open it up to for all to read.yielder wrote:I'm betwixt and between on this one. I think unhidden but opening it now might lead to all kinds of peripheral and detracting kibbitzing. Why don't we see what kind of commentary the announcement generates? If none , then pull back the read only curtain. If constructive , then pull back the read only curtain.Shakespeare wrote:Should the finiki forum be unhidden but read only if you're an editor?
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Hello editors - I was just approved this morning to join in. I'm a bit of a grammar nut, so when I have some free time I might scour through some articles and help out in terms of coherence. I will try and be judicious about adding actual financial content since I'm a relative newbie. Looking forward to seeing this develop!
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I've hidden this forum from all but editors.
I had hopes that an open discussion would entice people to join in but we seem to have run out of interested parties. (OTOH, having been able to see it for a while and now being unable may entice a few. )
I had hopes that an open discussion would entice people to join in but we seem to have run out of interested parties. (OTOH, having been able to see it for a while and now being unable may entice a few. )
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The same
Your experience in attracting new editors is closely paralleling our early experience at the bogleheads, and hopefully you won't have the announcement next week of a webring book project enlisting 50 of your best prolific forum writers as well as 5 editors, none of whom will come near the wiki for 12 months if at all-- this was our experience . On the other hand, patience can be rewarded.Shakespeare wrote:The rush has been underwhelming.
It may help if you and your staff make an effort to include a wiki link in your forum posts whenever opportunity knocks. Of our outreach efforts to date-- solicitations, weekly wiki activity reports, and the issuance of wiki buttons,--it is the buttons that seem have had the greatest effect in garnering new editors.
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Your suspicion is probably correct; it's a lot less daunting to add a sentence or two to an existing article than to write the first draft.Shakespeare wrote:I suspect that many people are afraid to tackle a new article because they think there are people here that know more about it. But the sections do not spring fully formed from the brow of Zeus.
Eventually, I would like to contribute but I have to learn the ins and outs of wiki editing first. I am finishing up a major work project and breaking in a new computer, so it will be a few days before I can dabble.
Re: above concerns about apparent lack of interest from forum members: A wiki doesn't just magically appear; it has to be built. Like a snowball rolling downhill, it grows faster the bigger it gets. Once our wiki starts to take shape, interest and participation will pick up.
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A related issue. Last night after someone mentioned RedFlagDeal's savings account interest rate table, I added it to the Deposit Rates page. I also added RFD's article that compares the T&Cs of several high interest savings accounts.
So far so good. But the former table obsoletes the existing Top 12 Highest Savings Account Rates section on the same page. I don't feel comfortable about deleting that because it might get someone's nose out of joint. I know it shouldn't and even if I delete it they could always restore it, etc. but it's a bit of leap of faith to just go and delete someone else's contributing without the risk of offending them. (I'll probably get over it once someone does something similar to me )
So far so good. But the former table obsoletes the existing Top 12 Highest Savings Account Rates section on the same page. I don't feel comfortable about deleting that because it might get someone's nose out of joint. I know it shouldn't and even if I delete it they could always restore it, etc. but it's a bit of leap of faith to just go and delete someone else's contributing without the risk of offending them. (I'll probably get over it once someone does something similar to me )
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