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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nedjer" data-source="post: 5889288" data-attributes="member: 83796">Sorry - that was about as clear as mud - long day.I used to use wikis to build shared content, but found what I felt were a few limitations:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">they don't encourage the rapid, on-going exchange of ideas/ negotiations between contributors in the way a wall can</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">they tend to sit outside the mainstream traffic of a forum</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">complete freedom to edit can discourage 'ownership' and 'investment' by enthusiastic contributors</li> </ul>As an alternative a co-ordinator/ moderator now looks after a sub-conference with tiers of further sub-conferences/ threads underneath. A sticky at the top of each sub-conference or thread contains the current agreed master version and blueprints for each area. At the top of the main sub-conference a projects road-map keeps track of things.So far, this social glue or such like, seems to have a push effect much like Facebook notifications, where participants are going into the complete forum and immediately being flagged and pulled-in by recent developments in their project.However, ENWorld's visitors are not a bunch of students required to demonstrate teamwork, they may like complete freedom to edit/ format and could prefer simply making content rather than collaborative 'storybuilding'.</blockquote>