In the next section we'll detail several refinements we can see to extend wiki to larger contexts, while preserving wiki virtues. The wiki's economical interface is extremely effective in certain contexts. However, we do feel that these requirements present obstacles to scaling use of the wiki, in size as will as in the range of contexts where can managebly be used. We want to fill in some substantial pieces, to convey the power of the wiki approach to larger and more general contexts. Anyone can visit unresolved links to create pages People involved in discussions need to monitor pages of interest to notice changes and to identify the substance of the changes This means that the burden is on the users to play fair, and take it on themselves to notice and track changes.
Uncooperative users can easily disrupt an endeavor.
Conventional wiki depends on manager intervention to perform reorganization activities - deletion of pages marked obsolete, page renaming, etc. This centralized responsibility is a bottleneck, and further, changing the organization of a wiki can be painful and disruptive, because it's generally hard to arrange for incoming links to track the changes. It's up to the wiki visitor to navigate links in order to infer the structure of the wiki - the relationships between pages. The section above sketches several ways that we see need for extending or changing wiki for use in wider contexts. Membership - associate actions with members.