[BangPypers] Idea

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

Secondly, wikis by definition allow editing by anyone. So how
do you protect a job posting against wilful malicious edits ?
What if I post for a Job which mentions Python experience
and then someone comes and edits "Python" to say "Ruby" ?
Then the posting is violated and no longer valid.

Do I go back and change it ? Or do I lock the post against
edits ? Then one does not need a Wiki anyway.

I fail to get the basic inspiring reason behind a Job wiki and
how it is useful apart from the common reason "wikis are cool" :)
To me it looks like a Job wiki has inherent issues. Wiki +
job posting does not go hand in hand.

--Anand


On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
<abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not a bad idea, but a fundamental problem with Job wiki is that job
>  information is transient. It does not hold good forever. Public wikis
>  are more suited to information which is constant and does not
>  change or age (time out). Which is why Wikis are successful in
>  storing and sharing knowledge (wikipedia!). They can be used
>  for storing and sharing transient information also, but with appropriate
>  safeguards. For example, in this case a time-stamp of  the job
>  posting should be mandatory. The good thing about a mailing list
>  is that an email provides the timestamp automatically (same for
>  a blog post), but that is not the case for most wikis, unless you
>  try and look up the metadata regarding the edits.
>
>  --Anand
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:29 PM, gnuyoga <gnuyoga at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Ashim Roy wrote:
>  >   > Sree,
>  >   >
>  >   > That's a great idea. How would we make the wiki info viral so that many
>  >   > people see it?
>  >   >
>  >   > Regards,
>  >   >
>  >   > Ashim
>  >
>  >  how about this ????
>  >
>  >  people can continue to post jobs in mailing list, but should a wiki
>  >
>  > reference ....
>  >
>  >  the idea is at any given point of time we should have a wiki page with
>  >  all the job posting added to it !!!
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > - sree
>  >
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-Anand