Comments:
2007-10-03 06:30:50
The name of the page can easily be (and has repeatedly been) interpreted by a reasonable person to be an action that you're encourage to take. The top of the page should have some equally visible text clarifying this. I'm too tired to think of something elegant and useful, though.
2007-10-03 06:32:16 Also, many reasonable people are not clear on the difference between a "wiki", meaning a collection of pages, and a "wiki page", meaning a single page within a broader wiki. So, that adds to the confusion - by editing a single page, these otherwise-reasonable people think they're creating a wiki. We should come up with language that addresses this common confusion. —Graham.Freeman
2007-10-03 06:49:35 suggest something :) maybe we should add some comment text here? —PhilipNeustrom
2007-10-03 18:45:35 By the way, I think the "new account creation" idea on feature requests will help with a lot of this once someone codes it up. —PhilipNeustrom
2007-11-15 18:59:50 After reading the Bee this morning I viewed your site and I would like some input from you. I am a recent liver transplant recipient and I am looking for a place to make people who are suffering from the long term effects of advanced stage liver disease (ASL) aware of information that will provide them avenues for treatment and lead those who qualify to the transplant list. I have limited time to spend on this project so I can not start this project in multiple locations. Is this a good place for me to start? I currently have a blog for providing health updates to those who care but it is does not seem to me to be good for connecting people to a wealth of information. —kilakowske
Wiki Spot might be a good place for you to start. The advantage over a blog is that you can organize and inter-link information and have others contribute. If you think that's what will help, then go for it.
While a lot of Wiki Spot wikis are about a local region, that's just a choice the communities who created them made. You can create a wiki here about nearly anything, provided that it benefits your community (your community in this case being transplant recipients). —PhilipNeustrom
2008-02-12 19:58:16 As much as I like the explanatory text, do you think we should maybe rework this page to allow people to more immediately create a wiki? Move the "create a wiki" box up, make it larger and in a particular color, and then prominently link to the community guidelines and explanatory text elsewhere in the page? —PhilipNeustrom
How about just an anchor link to get you down to the box faster? I really want people to have read all of that text before they create a wiki. It's better to head off the idiots before they create a wiki than 
after. I do think we have quite a need for i18n though. —BrentLaabs
I think a great deal of people are coming to this page, maybe skimming it, and then able to figure out how to create a wiki. This is evidenced by all of the pages on the hub that are mistakenly created. If the "CREATE A WIKI" step was clear then they would be redirected there. There's lots of other little things we could do to make it more clear, but this seems like an important step. I'm not sure the anchor thing would help..maybe if we had a separate, clear section for the "press here to create" area. I imagine it being colored separately, etc.
The concern early on was that we didn't want to make it too easy to create a wiki. I think we've moved too far in the other direction, where interested people with good ideas come to the page and get confused. Perhaps we should have a "Before you start a wiki.." page and make that one of the few "brain dead" steps indicated?
Current page (overview)
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What is a wiki?
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Ideas for a wiki
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City
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Interests
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Bad ideas for a wiki
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Help picking a name for a wiki
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Creation steps involved
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Other help pages
I think "what is..", "ideas..," "bad ideas.." could be moved to a separate page that we encourage people to read. We definitely need to encourage reading the community guidelines and throw a hint that "noncommercial" is a good thing to keep in mind. We may even be more effective in doing this if there's less text on the page.
Draft version at ../draft
2008-12-13 23:20:06 SOMEONE,PLEASE, PLEASE, HELP ME, AND EMAIL ME AS TO HOW TO CANCEL A USER NAME AND PASSWORD ON THE WIKI AND ALSO HOW THE HECK TO EXACTLY DO A USER PAGE ON A LINK ON A LOCAL WIKI—— i WOULD BE SO VERY GRATEFUL IF SOMEONE, ANYONE WHO IS ABLE TO TELL ME H0W TO GET THIS DONE, WOULD GET THE EXACT THE DIRECTIONS TO ME BY EMAIL- petcarepals@yahoo.com------I have tried and tried to do this and cannot get it to work for me at all, and cannot get any answers from the wiki, "ask questions on email" THANK YOU, WHOEVER OUT THERE, I WOULD BE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL—I am way beyond frustrated with it, and have already wasted too much valuable time trying to do it to no success so far!!!. —76.246.49.34
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(I emailed a reply to him or her) —Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards
2009-03-04 13:34:40 hey em and rest of group
2009-03-10 03:44:58 Okay, I made the proposed changes just now. I think it's a lot more straightforward? Any comments? —PhilipNeustrom
2009-06-11 17:50:46 I am caleb and I like girls
2009-11-10 10:36:47 :;:;:; —91.199.6.250
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Having problems? :) Yes, you can create a wiki if you'd like. What's up? —Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards
