2007/1/11, Vihan Pandey vihanpandey@gmail.com:
In contrast, if you have a wiki which is essentially a public document open to CRUD(CReate Update Delete) and discussion, it evolves over a period of time. If you create two same topic Wiki's in two different places and they have will probably have different members editing them(as a single person will find it tedious to post the same thing in two places on regular basis) also what we write once is generally a spur of the moment thing - pretty instinctive. Will we have same feelings and passion doing it yet for the same document in another place? Probably not. If we forced ourselves to try as hard as possible to give the same content in the 2nd place as well it would be a clear waste of time and energy.
A wiki has articles and each wiki can link to other wik's articles. So even for the same topic there can have different articles.
Never the less it would be an interesting behavioral study(just as a study)
to have such a scenario, wherein you would have two Wiki's with would evolve (probabalistically) in a different(or similar) manners based on the environment(user tempraments, events, incidents etc) around them. The Wiki effectively becomes a barometer of the opinions and belief's of that system(set of people).
This is a good point.
Cheers Praveen