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→An open letter to users and administrators of the various different Christian wikis
# The layout is never particularly logical.
#:Layout? What are you referring to? --[[User:Ymmotrojam|Tom]] 06:41, 25 July 2006 (PDT)
===Thoughts from JJ===
G. Grove, I've noticed your comments about inter-Christian wikis over the past several months,[http://www.wikible.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&oldid=15783#Joining_together] so I know that there are at least three of us with similar concerns. Tom had actually started a ChristianWikis site to address these concerns, although it kind of fell through the cracks. I have expressed similar concerns on both Wikible ([http://www.wikible.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:Admin&oldid=15680#Wikipedia_and_Theopedia_collaboration Wikipedia and Theopedia collaboration]) and the BibleWiki ([http://bible.tmtm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&oldid=226363#Differentiating_BibleWiki_from_Wikipedia Differentiating BibleWiki from Wikipedia]), although I haven't gotten a chance to elaborate on the Christian-point-of-view problems that I've noticed from the beginning. For now, I've been content with concentrating my efforts on BibleWiki and Wikible (see my Theopedia link above for reasons why), but particularly on Wikipedia for general articles since there is a larger audience there. While the splintering of the Christian community is frustrating, I think it's also encouraging to know that a lot of people are competing to create the "best" Christian wiki; everyone has different web design skills, so some of the Christian wikis have better features than others—survival of the fittest, if you will.
Therefore, in terms of content, I think we're doing well; community, though, is indeed a problem. I haven't explored the options very much at this point, but Tom's ChristianWikis site idea was a good one; a site that concentrates on collaboration and community but completely leaves out the encyclopedic content. This community site would also be helpful for people to standardize wiki codes of conduct and syntax rules, as well as direct visitors to the sites with the most developed articles on certain topics. In this way, content would continue to be developed on the individual wikis since they all have different focuses. Another option is to try to center the inter-wiki discussion on one of the existing wikis, but make a clearly defined statement about the community being separate from the site's own faith-biased content.
Please see my upcoming individual responses in Tom's section above, as well. --[[User:RockOfVictory|J. J.]] 16:34, 25 July 2006 (PDT)
