From Asim 16.05.06

It's important to keep in mind what is being attempted here and the nature

of this attempt.

Any reasonably substantial body of information is going to need to be

organised in some way and, indeed, there are almost always many ways it

could be done.

Combining this truth with the idea that the information is being collected

interactively and from multiple participants and the organisation task

becomes more complex.

Using a wiki does not, of itself, solve the problem of organisation - it

simply allows you to gather the information in collaborative way.

Reading through the EWT stuff you have been putting in, a thought occurred

to me that the main part of the information is laid out in a single page and

designed to be read from top to bottom.

Now...

1. Is this the true nature of the information - ie. that it must be read

sequentially for it to make sense?

2. This way, there is no possibility of linking from another topic into a

particular part of the text.

An alternative might be to make each paragraph a separate, much smaller,

topic and then a further topic that presents links to these smaller topics

in the required order with a recommendation that readers new to the subject

might like to read these topics in that order. This way it would still be

possible to reference some of these individuals pieces of text from other

parts of the site (or perhaps, in future, other sites...)

Of course, there must be many other possibilities...

Asim

From: Mike 15 May 2006 10:17

The psychology wiki is progressing. But one thing I have found is that you

need to get the eventual structure clear in you head before you start.

Reordering even fairly limited amounts of material would be a nightmare. The

structure sits inside the pages so you can't get an over view and consequent

control. Do you see what I mean?