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For WikiChristian to grow, we just need to keep plugging away and writing new articles about Christian related topics. --[[User:Graham grove|Graham grove]] 04:59, 15 November 2006 (EST)
:When I say Christian wiki, I mean anything that is a Christian wiki. Contrasting that to Christianity Encyclopedia wiki, which would be WikiChristian, Theopedia, etc. ;-). As far as the progress of different wikis, there's a few ways to view it.
:'''Number of users...'''
:I don't necessarily view the number of users as a very clear sign of progress on a wiki. I think there's atleast 5 registrations at Theopedia every day (atleast it seems that way), but not many of them ever edit anything. Most likely a lot of them are spam accounts. So amount of users is sort of a relative thing.
:'''Amount of 'legitimate' articles...'''
:This can also be a relative thing. BibleWiki and WikiChristian both use a system which, by it's very nature, inflates the statistics. It may not have been intended that way, but that's what it does in a technical sense. What's happening is there is a page for every verse of the Bible, which isn't bad, but not necessarily done in the most efficient way. I would personally put those pages, unless they also have commentary on them, in another namespace and therefore not inflate the statistics. So statistics can also be relative.
:'''Professionalism...'''
:Now I know this comes with time, but even so it is needed. No body wants to read a so-called 'encyclopedia' that looks like it was formatted and designed by children. One of the reasons, I think, Theopedia has done so well is because it does have a professional feel to it. It's not necessarily the most technologically advanced or active, but I think it has a respect because of the way it looks and the standards they have developed. Other wikis, including Wikible are still behind in that area.
:'''Planning before implementing...'''
:This is huge. It's great to have a wiki full of content, but if for example, you don't plan ahead of time what kinds of categories, semantic relations, and a general system for implementation, everything goes crazy. Then it is such a hard/huge task later that nobody wants to do it and they claim that it is 'good enough the way it is.' It's like neglecting homework. That is one of the main reasons that Wikible is a little slower on content, because we're trying to get the proper technology and organization sorted out, so newcomers can easily add content very easily and efficiently.
:--[[User:Ymmotrojam|Tom]] 11:04, 15 November 2006 (EST)
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