By “network effect” do you mean this? I take the network effect to be a problem here only if the wiki requires a large amount of people to be useful.
My hope is that the wiki should be useful even for a very small number of people. For example, I get use out of it myself just as a place to put some notes that I want to show to people and as a way of organizing my own questions.
Ah ya I see what you’re saying. Ya that’s definitely right. Certainly the most common kind of question asker online just wants to ask the highest number of the most qualified people their question and that’s it. Unless/until the site has a large user base that won’t really be possible on the wiki.
Still, I think as long as the thing is useful to some people it may be able to grow. But it may be useful to organize my thoughts better on exactly what the value is for single users.
One example that comes to mind is the polymath project. They found it useful to start a wiki to organize their projects. If anyone else wants to come along and do a similar thing, they can just use this wiki instead of making their own.
By “network effect” do you mean this? I take the network effect to be a problem here only if the wiki requires a large amount of people to be useful.
My hope is that the wiki should be useful even for a very small number of people. For example, I get use out of it myself just as a place to put some notes that I want to show to people and as a way of organizing my own questions.
It could very well be useful for that, but most people want to reach a larger audience when asking questions.
Ah ya I see what you’re saying. Ya that’s definitely right. Certainly the most common kind of question asker online just wants to ask the highest number of the most qualified people their question and that’s it. Unless/until the site has a large user base that won’t really be possible on the wiki.
Still, I think as long as the thing is useful to some people it may be able to grow. But it may be useful to organize my thoughts better on exactly what the value is for single users.
One example that comes to mind is the polymath project. They found it useful to start a wiki to organize their projects. If anyone else wants to come along and do a similar thing, they can just use this wiki instead of making their own.