Thread:Managing community contributions (1)

Something that interests me at the moment is how do you ensure that contributors are working towards the same ends in this assynchronous environment. I think it's important to ensure some degree of consistency with respect to structure of material & general "feel". Presumably contributors will come to the site with different ideas, priorities, etc.

From discussion with other people so far it seems that a collaborative project needs to have a defined vision, aims & objectives to guide collaborators. A page structure needs to be defined (e.g. [Computer Literacy Resources]). However it's important that these remain consistent with the pool of collaborators as it grows, so it seems to me that the vision, etc. needs to be revisited on a regular basis (presumably through discussion page??). I don't think that anyone really knows the answer to these questions. I asked Wayne McIntosh & Randy in the recent WikiEducator elluminate session about this issue, and didn't get any particularly clear answers. I guess we're all trying to get to grips with this new environment as it develops.--David McQuillan 21:18, 2 November 2007 (CET)